There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

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

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.

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

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

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

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.