Bruce Eric Kaplan

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them.

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.