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

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

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.

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

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

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.