Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Good judgment is what you get from experience, which is what you have immediately after using poor judgement.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some energy or some mystery.

Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.

I take every possible side.