Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money...

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.

A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.