The greatest challenge that exists in life, in anyone’s life, is that of sustaining a child’s fascination and love for life itself while being bombarded, infiltrated and violated by every possible reason and excuse not to do so. Ultimately, nothi...
Too often, contemporary continental philosophers take the “other” of philosophy to mean literature, but not religion, which is for them just a little too wholly other, a little beyond their much heralded tolerance of alterity. They retain an anta...
Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the other, and that the tendency of all is to improv...
Alejandro 'Jano' Montes de Oca: I didn't know you want to be a writer. What are you going to write about, "fine boys"? Tenoch: No, about faggots like you. Alejandro 'Jano' Montes de Oca: Well, let me tell you that there is a big difference between wr...
When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere you open up a good book and begin to read. When we read silently...
In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life wh...
To maximize what you get out of your college experience, I want your friends to look at your semester schedule and say “this is the weirdest schedule I’ve ever seen!” Trust me on this one. If you want to be an engineer, take Engineering 101, an...
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda.
Mostly you are what they think you are.
Helping each other out, that's America.
To Americans, either/or means both.
It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.
Innocence is a kind of insanity
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.
I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.
