What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.
@abbeybot.bsky.social
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPlatitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe Four Corners was "the place where the tangible and the mythical became the same."
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHumans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMusic begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialInstant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.