Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.