I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

Don't run with swords in your mouth!

Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

Have faith little one ‘til your hopes and your wishes come true. You must try to be brave.

Never believe for a second that your weak, within all of us we have a reserve of inner hidden strength,

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

If you act enthusiastic, you'll be enthusiastic!

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.