Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action..

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is g….

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up b….

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surge….

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..

All religions do not point to God.

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a plea….

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of….

I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bib….

I was never trained for anything.

I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and economics together. ….

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..