“a man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.”

“Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.”

“Like many people the young man was caught between conflicting cultures, diametrically opposed to each other, and through this he had to navigate. I carry suspicions about him.”

“Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby,”

“Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.”

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”