There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of total joy.

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

My mother raised me to be a writer.

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.