The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

The uninitiated might say that I am lost in my books, but I know I am more found than lost.

A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Unbinding the Heart really means to bring awareness to those areas we have restricted in our hearts and start to let go, open up, and practice staying open no matter what happens or doesn't happen.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

I would like to see more successful business people run for office.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.