Culture is public, because meaning is

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.