I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.