The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.

We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn't say anything.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Anything that I can do with my voice thats good, Ill try to do.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?