I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

