Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.