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

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

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

In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

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