To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

Immortality is the new twenty!

States are as the men are they grow out of human characters.

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.