The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.