Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.