It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

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

Time at length becomes justice.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.