If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

We usually live our lives with the belief that "I sacrifice myself for everyone else, " rather than thinking that "everyone else helps me.

We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?

God demands a conversion of the mind and heart as the basis of peace and security (cf. Is 26:3), not the superstitious veneration of a stone building or a traditionally sacred site

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

There have been times where I lost a job or whatever, and I think, "Okay, well that's just not part of my lane."

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.