"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

There’s always someone who knows something.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.