Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.