Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.

No child's behind left.

It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.