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I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

I'm a boring guy who's got a great job in a profession that still gives me a great deal of pleasure after 35 years.

When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.