To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?

Teaching is bringing the news.

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.p. 479

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.