The end is nigh, but at least we made it to 2014. Download the 2nd Annual Collected End Times for free!

When the lighter was invented, people did not abandon matches, and when the ever popular vibrator popped on the scene, no one made a case for getting rid of the penis. Well, some people did

As time goes by, knowledge grows and we have to grow with it

The little things we love will be ever so important as our days dwindle away

It doesn’t always help to be intelligible. Sometimes a healthy lack of lucidity, with just a soupçon of incoherence, can help one achieve the proper mindset to get where we want to be.

You’re probably thinking that I’m choosing to interpret things the way I want to, seeing what I want to see. Well, right you are.

I’m getting to more places and I’m getting more accomplished, but what am I giving up? I think too much.

It’s always been obvious that the more concentration you put into anything, the richer the return, but the trick to the big payoff is going deep.

I strongly advise against falling into any kind of rainbow-like, all-embracing oneness with the universe, let alone your next-door neighbor.

I strongly advise against falling into any kind of rainbow-like, all-embracing oneness with the universe, let alone your next-door neighbor

A New Inquiry Podcast: Jerome Charyn and Michael Seidenberg in conversation at Brazenhead Books. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem.