First Of All, Shakespeare Is About Pleasure

Through Reading Literature We Can Make Ghosts Speak To Us, And We Can Speak Back To Them.

The Exercise Of Reason Is Not Available Only To Specialists; It Is Accessible To Everyone.

Writing Is A Performance, Like Singing An Aria Or Dancing A Jig

I Think The Writing Of Literature Should Give Pleasure. What Else Should It Be About? It Is Not Nuclear Physics. It Actually Has To Give Pleasure Or It Is Worth Nothing.

In High School I Read [lev] Tolstoy's "anna Karenina" And Loved It. Then I Read [friedrich] Nietzsche's "on The Genealogy Of Morals" And That Hit Me Hard. I Don't Know Where I Got It. My Parents Warned Me Not To Mention Either Of Those Books When I Went For My College Interviews So I Wouldn't Seem Like An Egghead. They Told Me To Talk About Sports.