Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.