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

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

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.

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

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.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

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