Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.

I hate to sound like an old fuddy duddy, but the game has changed.

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.

Many people think you shouldn't stop kids from being kids, and I agree, but no one wants the worst case scenario on their hands. Better safe than sorry I say.

Never have one kid in the room with you, and avoid situations that would look suspect to a passerby.

I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.

These kids know so much these days, and are bigger, stronger and quicker mentally. We just have to find out how to use it for good and not evil.

Kids are great in that they keep you on your toes. They're like a puzzle... in a blender, haha. You have to take the pieces out and try to put it together on the fly.

When you have a great idea, and don't rush it, things can work itself out.

If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make.

A mind possessed by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks.

With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua’s hands. “One of my favorites.

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.