Michael Dirda : (6)

" What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them. " - Michael Dirda

" Summertime, and the reading is easy… Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February. " - Michael Dirda

" Any man’s death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago. " - Michael Dirda

" For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire. " - Michael Dirda

" The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens. " - Michael Dirda

" It’s a sad commentary on our time – to use a phrase much favored by my late father – that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies. " - Michael Dirda