Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.