I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

Photography must be integrated with the story.

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar Which glorifies vast worlds of space above.

Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.