There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.

I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their careers before can be a rather slow process and a long process, it certainly was the case at Harvard, and it's the case with most of the general education curricula that I know of, it takes four or five years just to get everybody on board with one idea.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a lot of New Yorker readers are kind of, you know, amateur grammarians and so you do get a lot of that.