Poems Are Difficult To Silence.

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

One Of My Favorite Writers Is Michel De Montaigne. My Wife Gave Me A Beautiful 17th-century Edition Of Montaigne's Essays Translated By John Florio. That's Probably My Most Precious Possession.

I Was In Venice Teaching, So I Reread Henry James's "the Wings Of The Dove." I Love James.

[people In 1600s] Didn't Have Many Books. They Would Have Been Staggered By The Personal Libraries We Have Today, Because Books Back Then Were Incredibly Expensive.