It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.