A deep commitment to general education is impossible in a context in which faculty and students prize above all their ability to teach and study what they want.

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

Be the star of your life.

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them."-Tock

I will either be famous or infamous.

I don't mind releasing - I'm under a routine audit. And it'll be released.

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

You know how to drive a car, but you do not know how to drive your life!

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.