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

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.

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

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.

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.