If you said, 'What is the most important aspect of winning football games?' I don't think I could give you an answer to that question.
I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.
Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?
But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.
Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?
Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.
We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.
Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.
I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.
If you have a problem I find keeping it a secret makes it so much stronger.
These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better. " The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours. " But you, after all, are neither property nor style.