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

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

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.