The Worst Cynicism: A Belief In Luck.

For Politics Is In Its Essence As Adams Had Said, The 'systematic Organization Of Hatred': Either You Were Organized Or You Were Not.

Anyone Who Teaches Knows That You Don't Really Experience A Text Until You've Taught It, In Loving Detail, With An Intelligent And Responsive Class.

My Role Models Were Childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, The Brontes.

There Is A Terrible Weight In All Kinds Of Beauty

Be Your Own Editor/critic. Sympathetic But Merciless!