“But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.”

“And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.”