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I was a disinterested student.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.