“And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.”

“Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.”

“Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is.”

“I tend not to share things unnecessarily with those I despise.”

“So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused.”

“Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished”

“The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?”