"Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin."

“Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.”

“Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here”

“To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect government out here which required the intervention of nobody, you would have destroyed the society. But by raising the individual ability of the persons in the society within the framework that they are able to view, raise their ability within the framework they are able to view, you would have achieved a marked advance for that society.”

“I believe I was ahead of my time.”

“I wanted to be a tragedienne. I only wanted sad parts. When mother read the press notices when I was on the road, saying I was a 'comedienne,' the tears rolled down my cheeks. I thought comedians had to have black on their faces, or red beards...”

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“Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.”

“When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research,”

“A drummer is usually like the backbone.”