On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.

Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.

When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal... and then continue with your writing.

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.