If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.