Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.
I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.
You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.
If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.