"The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness."

“Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.”

“To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....”

“I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.”

“I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.”

“Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor to find jobs. ...those who most need the work will have a harder time finding it.”

“O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?”

“Life has become a state of sensory overload.”

“Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.”