Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.