"One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it."

"It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."

"Writing is both mask and unveiling."

"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper."

"I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance."

"I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student."

"Bad theaters are as mischievous as bad schools."

"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."

"The desire to write grows with writing."

"You can't teach court savvy"

"Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America."

"I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school."

"Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it."

"My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves."

"Time is a river, and books are boats."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."

"Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational."

"There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine."

"I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes."

"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."

"In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."

"Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with."

"What is reading, but silent conversation."