“...Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.”
“I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.”
“The first lesson I would learn about love is that it is filled with disappointment. The second thing I would learn is that the search for a cure almost invariably ends up being self-destructive.”
“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.”
“When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.”
“The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.”