Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.

If you're not parenting on purpose, don't be surprised when you get chaos from the children.

Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.