I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.

It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.

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.

There is no try. There is only do.