I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.