The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.