When you're kind of the ugly stepsister, you just go to the prom with whoever asks you.

Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.

Damn sure better win. That's all I can say.

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Don't quote me on that

Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

We are sitting on many powder kegs. Whether it's Ferguson, or St Louis, or like the other night, or Baltimore. Or different parts of Chicago.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.