I was a very keen reader of science fiction.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.
The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
I was always attracted to science fiction movies.
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.
Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
