Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

You're always going to have terrorism.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity. That is wisdom.

I can kick your head off, but I can't, like, play a stupid little video game.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.

A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.