All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

Faith is a sacred fruit.

Never abbreviate your dreams. Only short-hand people always do that. Their punishment is that they can't stretch far, further and forward into the future. Dream only big dreams!

Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.

Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older as spreading oak gives more shelter.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.