The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher