The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the world of Shakespeare (or Aeschylus or Racine) is totally different from our world; and yet any human being can look through the differences in dress and mores and discover our common problems, passions, and potentials.

Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori

To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"

No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.