"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it’s quite conscious."

"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please…"

"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can’t take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed w…"

"You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gl…"

"Maybe you are the “cool” generation … If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of e…"

"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his ex…"

"None of these strictures, however, should inhibit any one of us, in his individual capacity, from declaring himself o…"

"It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II."

"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometime…"

"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."