Key Metaphors Help Determine What And How

Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury.

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

When I Was A Graduate Student, The Leading Spirits At Harvard Were Interested In The History Of Ideas.

I Think The Hardest Thing To Teach A Student Is That What He Or She Puts Down On Paper Is Changeable. It's Not The Final Thing, It's The First Thing, Which May Just Be The Suggestive, Vague Identification Of Something That You Have To Come Back To And Rewrite.

The Survival Of Artistic Modes In Which We Recognize Ourselves, Identify Ourselves And Place Ourselves Will Survive As Long As Humanity Survives.