“ For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them. Anthony M. Esolen
“ There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whi… Harold Bloom
“ The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this country if you'll just get yourself called Reverend. Pe… Christopher Hitchens
“ Life is a bitch; you get used though, or you kill yourself. Either way, you're winning. Ahmed Mostafa
“ The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction. Ahmed Mostafa
“ Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere. Thomas Piketty
“ [you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble idea what a lawyer should be. A champion of individual rights; a defender of t… John Grisham
“ Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect. Jodi Picoult
“ Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: I did not know that fellow was a poet. And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical ma… Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“ No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like Marie Lu
“ Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them. William Shakespeare
“ I call [fourth-wave feminism] fainting–couch feminism, a la the delicate Victorian ladies who retreated to an elegant chaise when overcome with emotion. As an equality feminist from the 1970s, I am di… Christina Hoff Sommers
