“The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.”

“The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.”

“An empty skull is the vanitas symbol of modern education.”

“Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn?”

“I dropped out of school and congratulated myself for my diligence. Few realize how hard one has to work to resist the pressures of conventional success.”

“I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape painter.”

“The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.”