We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.

Do not have so much fear of this world that it will ruin the next incarnation.

Words never fade away but echo on for eternity. Let your echo ring sweet.

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.

He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

May God preserve you and watch over you.

Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend to be slightly separate.