All systems require myths for their longevity.

No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it