Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.