I'd always assumed I'd become a professor. I had such great professors at Berkeley — along with Michael Rogin and Larzer Ziff, John Schaar and Norman Jacobson. They were inspiring figures. They were devoted to students. They looked you in the eye. They let you know that they believed you had something to contribute, in a class, in a paper, even to the field, the discipline, the discourse, the conversation that had been going on for centuries, and you felt called to try to live up to that.p. 6

"So-called dumb people, simple people, uneducated people, have as authentic and profound depth of feeling as the most educated on earth." "And anyone who says different," he said, "is a fascist."p. 78