If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Every cop will tell you that their real job is being a social worker. That's what they do all day. The large majority of police officers in this country never even draw their gun, let alone fire it. They do conflict resolution, right? And if that's their job, why do they need to look like they're an occupying force?

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.