Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.