The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

Old saws have no teeth.

Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex.

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.

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