I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.

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

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. The core is the core is the core. There is always the core, that can’t be articulated. Only caricatured.