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

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed