One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted but was unable to run for a lack of space, he refused to write for the magazine again.

I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me.