"The intellectual's spirit as an amateur can enter and transform the merely professional routine most of us go through…"

"As a way of maintaining relative intellectual independence, having the attitude of an amateur instead of a profession…"

"In the end, I am moved by causes and ideas that I can actually choose to support because they conform to values and p…"

"Everything I have written in these lectures underlines the importance to the intellectual of passionate engagement, r…"

"Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning."

"A Shipman was ther, woning fer by weste: For aught I woot, he was of Dertemouthe. He rood up-on a rouncy, as he couth…"

"Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where the land she travel…"

"O well for the fisherman’s boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in h…"

"I fear thee, ancyent Marinere! I fear thy skinny hand; And thou art long and lank and brown As is the ribb’d Sea-sand."

"In Tenedos I met by accident, two French Merchants of Marseills, intending for Constantinople, who had lost their shi…"