“The close study of character, conflict, passions, motives, self-deception, and self-reflection in the world’s great literature is as foundational to a career as a psychotherapist as the study of anatomy is to a surgeon or scales are to a composer.”

“Our whole society needs more people who can see things from many points of view, who can inhabit someone else’s world in the ways that only literature—especially foreign literature—enables us to do.”