We don't have a handle on the whys very much at all.

Life is not getting any less complicated.

Trying to get your head wrapped around what is student achievement and what can I as a board member do about it. Picking the carpet and firing the coach is easy, but what to do about No Child Left Behind? Keeping the potholes fixed is a little bit less esoteric and a little bit less foreign land to walk into.

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.