Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts.

Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.