Language is the house of being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

"In every ending, there is a beginning waiting to be discovered."

Policy debates should be grounded in rigorous empirical analysis.

I am not lonely. I am alone. There is a difference.

"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."