Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.

Look at you… You’re perfect.""Not… perfect.""Perfect to me…

Honesty scares quite a lot of people.

This could be our greatest nightmare. But maybe, intead this would be our only hope of salvation.

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

I think it's important to remember how quickly sports popularity can change.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.