Be careful when you set intentions

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

I think noogies can be effective if done at the right time and place.

Knowledge is structured in consciousness

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.