Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off!

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and I think people will laugh at themselves. And it's lighthearted.

People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.

The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.