Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.

The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules.

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race.

As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus.

Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.

Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

The dead worry the living because their silence reminds us how little the great comedies and tragedies in our lives matter and how little the universe would care if we'd never lived at all.” -- Nara

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best museums with them.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.