Very Few Of My Books Are About

Being A Professor And Working Are Not The Same Thing. The Academic Community Is Composed Largely Of Nitwits. If I May Generalize. People Who Don't Know Very Much About What Matters Very Much, Who View Life Through Literature Rather Than The Other Way Around.

Joan Organizes Our Social Life, And On Weekends I Follow Her Around.

There Can Never Be Any Substitute For Your Own Palate Nor Any Better Education Than Tasting The Wine Yourself.

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.

If You Want To Write, Write It. That's The First Rule. And Send It In, And Send It In To Someone Who Can Publish It Or Get It Published. Don't Send It To Me. Don't Show It To Your Spouse, Or Your Significant Other, Or Your Parents, Or Somebody. They're Not Going To Publish It.