Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.