The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.

Being insulted again and again it doesn't mean that you haven't self respect. It means that you value someone most.

Healthy people can own their mistakes and, over time, move on.

Writing a full length novel is very much like driving a car with snakes in your pants—you just never know what’s going to happen. -- James Scott Bell

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

The confession of one man humbles all.

America is pretty split.

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.