Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.