"I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them."

“Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.”

“In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.”

“Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.”

“Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.”

“I love the good old book with glue and binding, I really do, but that is just one way of experiencing text, and suddenly we have so many new ways, including our laptops, our phones, our watches. People in my generation agonize over this. People much younger than me don't agonize at all. They just go ahead and find ways to transform publishing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.”

Source : "Colour in My Garden".

“Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.”

Source : Robert W. Bly (2003). “Fool-Proof Marketing: 15 Winning Methods for Selling Any Product or Service in Any Economy”, p.98, John Wiley & Sons

“If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.”