Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.
Jane SmileyI have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
Jane SmileyA novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.
Jane Smiley