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

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way

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

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.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.