The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.