When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
Ann PatchettMaybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
Ann PatchettIf I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
Ann Patchett