"The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither."

"I lived most of my life feeling like an outsider. I remember in second grade being bullied, taunted and beaten up. I am bicultural, biracial – my mother is Japanese and my father is caucasian. I grew …"

"It is the nature of poetry to emphasize that the physical sounds of words come from a particular body , one at a time, in a particular order."

"Our course of advance ... is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes. Progress comes per saltum, by successive compromises between extremes, compromises often … between …"

"America is not an idea or a collection of documents, but neither is it a closed ethnolinguistic set. It is a nation in which relations among the people and between the individual and the state are def…"