Writing, unlike teaching, is a very lonely craft, is therefore, I think, very difficult.

写作，不像教学，是孤独的艺术，如此说来，它也非常困难。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The teaching fellows in this course, I'm lucky to work with and you are too.

我非常幸运的能和这些教学人员一起工作，当然你们也是如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

You've got to squeeze absolutely everything out of it, and so it was ideal from the standpoint of teaching and was, it seems to me, also wonderfully galvanizing intellectually because it really did make people think: "look how intricate what I thought was simple turns out to be."

你得完完全全把东西都挤干净了，正因如此，从教学本身的立场来看，这就是理想状态了，而在我看来，它能使人如醍醐灌顶,因为它真的在引导人们思考：,“我想象得很复杂的东西原来是这么简单的一回事儿啊！“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选