I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.
Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.