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.

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

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

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

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

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