We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.
People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.
I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.
I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.