This part for “General Hospital” came up, and I only took it because I needed the money. I didn’t think it was any kind of career move… I thought, “Nobody watches these shows except blue-haired old ladies ironing.” But it just happened to become the popular TV show among college kids that summer. It was […]
College Quotes
I think I had spent up my available capital for extroversion in college, and I had to be by myself. I intended to take one year, but ended up taking four.
My father, who was technically an immigrant—he came when he was an infant—wanted me to be an American, preferably an American president. He didn’t go to college. Before I was born he wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: […]
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.
My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did […]
Such works as Milton’s “Areopagitica” and Mill’s “Liberty” are not used as text-books in the American colleges. Surely that is asking far too much. Who could imagine a pedagogue honestly believing in liberty? If he did his life would be one long stultification, for he lives in a world in which he has no rights […]
Seniors graduate from high school over the next few weeks. Many will expand their education with advanced learning and mentoring with very bright people. Others will go to college.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
A college education was for me life-changing. It gave me a life-long passion for reading and learning. It challenged my narrowness and parochialism – really forced open my mind. It deepened my commitment to culture in general and to the higher forms of pleasure. Thus it enriched my life – permanently – by confirming me […]
Enter by this gateway and seek the way of honor, the light of truth, the will to work for men.
