The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.