Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.