Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.

The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.