If You Learn One Thing From Having

If You Don't Set Your Writing - Teaching - At A Level That Makes Them Stretch, They Are Never Going To Develop Their Intellectual Muscle.

If You Read Quickly To Get Through A Poem To What It Means, You Have Missed The Body Of The Poem.

We Are Human, And Nothing Is More Interesting To Us Than Humanity.

John Updike Is Always Fun. And One Of My Former Students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, Another Former Student.

We Are Human, And Nothing Is More Interesting To Us Than Humanity. The Appeal Of Literature Is That It Is So Thoroughly A Human Thing — By, For And About Human Beings. If You Lose That Focus, You Obviate The Source Of The Power And Permanence Of Literature.