I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.