Very Few Of My Books Are About

It's Tempting To Say The Ph.d. Didn't Have An Effect, But It's Not So. I Think Whatever Resonance I May Be Able To Achieve Is In Part Simply From The Amount Of Reading And Learning That I Acquired Along The Way

I Have Reached The Point Where I Know That As Long As I Sit Down To Write, The Ideas Will Come. What They Will Be, I Don't Know.

I Was On The Oprah Winfrey Show Once. It Was A Really Slow News Day For Oprah, And There Were Several Of Us On 'cause None Of Us Was Sufficiently Interesting By His Or Herself.

Being A Professor And Working Are Not The Same Thing. The Academic Community Is Composed Largely Of Nitwits. If I May Generalize. People Who Don't Know Very Much About What Matters Very Much, Who View Life Through Literature Rather Than The Other Way Around.

There Can Never Be Any Substitute For Your Own Palate Nor Any Better Education Than Tasting The Wine Yourself.