I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.