I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.