Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

I never wanted to see another quiz show.