In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

In the end, crime doesn't pay.