Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.

If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.

The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.

The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.