Aaron Bach

Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel Aureliano Buendía could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Our obituary writer is an extreme, pedantic gossip. He gets things wrong, but he gets them in detail.

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness? ... Parmenides posed this very question in the sixth century before Christ. He saw the world divided into pairs of opposites: light/darkness, fineness/coarseness, warmth/cold, being/non-being. One half of the opposition he called positive (light, fineness, warmth, being), the other negative. We might

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

Hal likes to get high in secret, but a bigger secret is that he’s as attached to the secrecy as he is to getting high.

We have to eat happy eggs from happy chickens.