I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.