We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

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.

Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other.

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