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.

I always had good students.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.