“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
“Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.”
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”
“Lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most.”
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”