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

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

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.

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

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

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

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