You think people are interchangeable,
don't walk in another man's moccasins--
look through his glasses.

'Health consists essentially in being able
to resolve contradictions.' --Kierkegaard,
The Sickness Unto Death (1849) tr
Lowrie

Artists settle for gestures. Then curse the
audience for not having enough imagination
to supply the rest.

You don't gain skills, you lose preconceptions.

No dreams grow where reality is not
examined.

Art can be a discipline instead of just a
drug, when it demands more freedom of
the artist.

I could never be a professor, because the first
thing i'd have to profess is the evil of
universities.

Terrorism insurance. (via Volokh)