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.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Respect and fear are two different things.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.