Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.

I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.

Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.

Life is not a race....Everyone can win, so stop going around in circles.

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.