The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.