I often cannot believe the things I do.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

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

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.