Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

I had a few good professors in my painting and drawing classes, but all my graphic design classes tried to teach us how to use Photoshop and Illistrator by showing the class demonstration video clips....

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who...

You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of...

He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an...

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they...

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott’s collected essays for their classes.

I got into acting classes. I didn’t want to just go by luck.

A person may use his fundamental right to communicate whatever he likes, but the people like his point as per their personal choice only and not necessarily that which is always fundamentally right.

I didn’t go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school ‘peers’ (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I...

To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.