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.

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

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

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

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.