"Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning."

“A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.”

Source : Speech to the members of the Committee of Public Safety, quoting Mirabeau, October 17, 1793. "Saint-Just: Colleague of Robespierre". Book by Eugene Newton Curtis, p. 236, 1973.

“What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.”

“I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.”

“Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.”

Source : Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

“If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.”

“Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.”

“The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.”

“Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.”