“One of the close things that happened with Bob and me is that we went to each other’s classes, which was really amazing. He came to my 101 class, beginning religion, talking about sociology, which Bob was very much interested in, and I went to two of his classes in particular on classical treatises and political science. He always thought I lectured too much and I always thought that he didn’t lecture enough. So students were just asking questions and he was peppering them with questions but as some of the students would say when they were leaving the classroom, where did this class go? What was the meaning of it? [Still] Bob was an influence on me. Yes, I would set my watch on the table, particularly in doing Religion 101, where you could talk forever on these texts and a lot of other things, too, and I would time myself for teaching or talking for never more than half of the class, even if I had to throw out my best notes. I would throw them out and say “OK, from here on I want questions and I’m going to ask you some questions.”
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