Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.

Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.

There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).