If You Read Quickly To Get Through

If You Learn One Thing From Having Lived Through Decades Of Changing Views, It Is That All Predictions Are Necessarily False.

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

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

When Something Startlingly New Comes Up, Young People, Especially, Seize It. You Can't Complain About That. I Think Its Heyday Has Passed, But It's Had An Effect And Will Continue To Have An Effect.

Hard Work Makes Easy Reading Or, At Least, Easier Reading.