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.

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

I suppose everybody does get attached to characters whether in movies or in stories, but I think that's part of the reason you get involved with literature is because there's somebody that grabs you about it and then you want to figure out why.

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.

I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

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.

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.