Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.

Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it.

Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.