One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

If your actions don't excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you're doing it wrong.

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress.

To be a success, intensely focus on success oriented action not on roadblocks or obstacles.

There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!

My nerves could use a drink.

Every animal loves itself.

Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy.

To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.