I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

The only real nation is humanity

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.