Quote #2886
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Quote #20504
‘We must do something’ is the unanimous refrain. ‘You begin’ is the deadening refrain.
Quote #20669
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Quote #13141
Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
Quote #25338
What’s done to children, they will do to society.
Quote #8211
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to...
Quote #21635
There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
Quote #6430
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it...
Quote #22942
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful...
Quote #2194
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.