I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Thank God for your mother.

A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.