I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
. . . you are a microcosm of Me - the Divine All, the Holy Everything, the Sum and Substance. . . the Alpha and the Omega. . . Yes, I am God, as you now understand Him. I am Goddess as you now comprehend Her, I am the Conceiver and the Creator of Everything you now know and experience, and you are My children. . . even as I am the child of another.
You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source. You draw from it the vital energy that sustains you for a while when you return to the manifested, the world of separate forms.