I teach one semester a year, and this year I’m just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.