“I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.”

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

When in doubt, go for the dick joke.

My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it’s mobile meditation.

After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my car.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone.

I wonder what chairs think about all day: “Oh, here comes another asshole

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

But if there’s love, dear – those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don’t become stupid!

When you don’t have equality of opportunity because you don’t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

Self-education is an essential part of any anti-racist journey, and reading has always been a huge part of my personal learning.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken.