M. H. Abrams

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.