If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters. I cannot think of anybody who doesn't need an editor, even though some people claim they don't. I've found students shocked to learn that it can take me three years to finish a poem. A man who is ahead of his time, but behind in his rent. Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows.
True genius lies in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous and conflicting information.
Thanks to a gullible public, we have been honored, flattered, even paid for producing the largest number of inconsequential studies in the history of civilization. The vast majority of the so-called research turned out in the modern university is essentially worthless. It does not result in any measurable benefit to anything or anybody . . . There has been a swing away from the great literature of the twenties and thirties when writers were driven by social injustices of their times. The country is crawling with angry young men-in sociology, in politics, in biology.