My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

I come as one, but stand as 10,000.

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.