It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.

My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests.

The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.

To look at possibility is to be free.