“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”

“I want to read the employment section of the Bible. I think it’s simply called Job.”

“Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.”

“I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”

“No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.”

“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”