The most profoundly affecting class I took in college was a class called Philosophy in Literature. About 15 years after I graduated, I wrote to my professor and told him that I still remembered the reading list and I still was being changed by the books we read. So he wrote back and said, in that case, read Foe. That's the one I'm really hot on right now.

I never could. I read Disgrace, but Foe just never did much for me. Waiting for the Barbarians is considered greatness among many people I know, and I couldn't read that one either....

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It is painful in the extreme to live with questions rather than with answers, but that is the only honorable intellectual course. (c) Norman Mailer