“Are the kids at school?""No, they're in the lake. My God.”
“God, that’s always the thing you have to decide with high school kids: what to make an issue of, what to let go.”
“I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
“The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.”
“Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.”
“The bad kids and the good kids and all kids... They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.”