When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him..

I have to change to stay the same..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

I is what I is, and I'm not changing..

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in ….

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies..

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain ….

I have seen myself backward..

The surest sign of fitness is success..

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God..

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be..

There's nothing wrong with being an agitator..

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere..

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I ….

Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast..

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures..

I've always thought that less was a lot more..

Oh, am I wearing an ascot? I didn't notice..