Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

I've always had great relationships and stayed really good friends with the guys I've dated.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.