Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.

Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.