We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false