I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's e….

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus..

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really d….

The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to c….

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and ….

It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that t….

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America..

I have not had any serious non-academic job..

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic..

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose..

My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at ….

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either..

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation..

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience..

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view..

I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it….

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect..