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A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.

I love teaching.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.