Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.