Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

Ultimately, I am all I can know.

Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people.

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

Camp David is a wonderful place for the family to get away and run around and do goofy things.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.