“Imagine others complexly.”

“For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?”

“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough structural common ground in the text itself so that we can talk to each other, even sometimes persuade each other, about what we read: and that many-voiced conversation, with which, thankfully, we shall never have done, is one of the most gratifying responses to literary creation, second only to reading itself.”

“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.”

“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”

“Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.”