I did not and do not think of the solidity-liquidity conundrum as a dichotomy; I view those two conditions as a couple locked, inseparably, in a dialectical bond.

We are already and will remain all in the same boat.

When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi, whenever they quarrel.

In Montreal, where I taught in 1970, I met many people. The only ones who said to me they were Canadians, were Jews. All the rest were Scotts, Irish, English, French, Swedes.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

With every death, a world is disappearing.

Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.