Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

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.