It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.