"One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art."

“Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.”

“As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.”

Source : Elizabeth A. Johnson (2011). “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.”

“A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.”

“Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon”

“Don't be concerned with how many followers you have, be concerned with where you are leading them.”

“I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.”

“Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.”