Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.