I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it"
"No...sir"
"I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained.

We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark.

You've got to be kid-
Well, crud, what just happened there?
I ran out of syl-