The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated.

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.