“I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.”

“The bad kids and the good kids and all kids... They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.”

“When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.”

“I don't really know them, but I know this: they're just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not because of the tattoos, or in spite of them, but because they're kids and we're supposed to look out for kids.”

“The goal of life is to take everything that made you weird as a kid and get people to pay you money for it when you're older.”

“I just question the value of isolated math, science and literary skills - especially when they're achieved at the expense of social skills - when our kids are little. I don't see ho it's putting them ahead if they know how to write their name before the next kid.”