If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

Rape is not an extraordinary or evil act for an assailant. It is like forcing someone to eat when she is not hungry.

Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

To lead is to be yourself in a world of clones

If youth only knew, if age only could.

You know, I'm not ready to go anywhere. I still have more to do in Paramore.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.