In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.

This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum, our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts, nothing you could touch.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.