Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

Hip-hop didn't invent anything… hip-hop re-invented everything.

I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.

When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

I don't think we're supposed to say [expletive deleted] anymore.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government.