"To have lived a full life is to have learned to love, that is, to give greatly. It is to have learned how to make the gesture that some scholars have called oblative, opposing this term to captative; as though contrasting the gesture of offering with the gesture of seizing."

"Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe …"

"I say nuclei, for to me whatever sphere, or other form, I use in these constructions does not necessarily m…"

"The term is understood objectively rather than subjectively. Individuals, families and groups in the popula…"

"Last night a friend from Baroda called. Weeping. It took her fifteen minutes to tell me what the matter was…"

"This is not rocket science. When a kid who has never killed anyone in his life goes on a rampage and looks …"

"The real turning point between the medieval age of faith and the modern age of unfaith came when the scient…"