I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.