Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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?'

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

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

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