All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.