In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

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

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

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

Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.

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