Don’t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

We did an a cappella version, which I have always wanted to do, of the "Coventry Carol." It's beautiful, and we did it in three part harmony with no accompaniment. We have two a cappella songs that, in my opinion, are just gorgeous.

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's next? What's next?' I like the equanimity that comes with my age. I don't have big highs, and I don't have big lows. Even if this job goes away tomorrow, the nonstop ambition is a thing of the past for me. I've mellowed

It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.