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

But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.