“But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.”

“I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..”

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”

“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”

“You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?”

“We are not optimists because we can predict a bright and beautiful future, but we're not pessimists either, because the future is unknown and unknowable. We are, rather, active participants in possibility, willing workers in the fields of what could be, but is not yet. We are compelled by love- love of children and youth, love of a world in need of repair- and powered by hope. ”

“If you choose to live only in the world as you find it, you surrender too much.”