Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

To liberate yourself from your own self-judgment is to liberate others from it as well. To love yourself is an act of love for the world.

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.