The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...

Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.

This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in Philadelphia, to whom more is owed than can ever be repaid.

It's the nature of bureaucracy, I think, to issue statements like this.

One of the great advantages of
having a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books.

Are you really a doctor?” I asked.
“Some people say that.”
“Why?”
“Because I went to medical school.”
“Did you not finish?” I asked hesitantly.
“I finished.”
“So…?”
“So sometimes I work as a doctor.”
“So doesn’t that make you a doctor?”
“I guess, but I also worked as a baker, construction worker, and a bunch of other things. Either way I just prefer being known as Jack. I mean Dr. Baker Jack Hammer Jack, would be entertaining, but I think also a little weird.