I get to meet writers, and I love writers.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.