Education

• New York University

Favorite saying

• "Its not enough to be good when you dream of being great "When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be an inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone." — Tennessee Williams "I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?" — J.R.R. Tolkien I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.” —Henry David Thoreau "There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope." —The Count of Monte Cristo "Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy" — Alexandre Dumas "Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope." — The Count of Monte Cristo "Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to." — Oscar Wilde "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it" — Oscar Wilde "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune but omitted, the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat and we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures." —Julius Caesar "I've been told that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid" “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live for our death brings no pleasure on the world." —John Steinbeck “It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything.” — Fight Club "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." — Charles Bukowski We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." — Charles Bukowski "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." — Charles Bukowski "Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies." —Friedrich Nietzsche “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina "One must do one of two things: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it; or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as I do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied." ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should be doing something wrong. ― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience "Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth." "And triteness kicks us in the ass. ― House "Your friends are not dead, but gone before Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which you must travel in the steps they trod" ― Aristophanes In regard to propaganda the early advocates of uni­versal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democra­cies -- the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. ― Aldous Huxley As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ― Albert Einstein A bee, settling on a flower, stings a child. And so the child is afraid of bees and declares that the purpose of the bee is to sting people. A poet delights in the bee sipping from the nectaries of the flower and says that the purpose of the bee is to imbibe the nectar of flowers. A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen and carry it to the hive, says that the purpose of the bee is to gather honey. Another beekeeper, who has studied the life of the swarm more closely, says that the bee forages for pollen to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and the purpose of the queen is to propagate the species. A botanist, observing the bee flying with the pollen of a diclinous flower to a pistil of another flower fertilizes the latter, sees in this the purpose of the bee’s existence. Another, observing the pollinating of plants, notices that the bee assists in this work, and may say that this is the purpose of the bee. But the ultimate purpose of the bee is not exhausted by the first, the second, or any of the processes the human mind can discern. The higher the human intellect rises in the revelation of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension. Only the speculation on the relation of the life of the bee to other manifestations of life is accessible to man. And so it is with the purpose of historical characters and nations. ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace Theory is the poetry of science. It is simplication, abstraction, the exaggeration of truth. Through simplication, theory creates a caricature of reality. The caricature itself is not the real world | it mocks it. Yet mind true things by their mockeries! ―Robert Mundell “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” ―F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ― Lincoln “The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.” ― Mark Twain "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ―Ben Franklin"