"I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs."

“Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.”

Source : Up Front cartoon caption (1945)

“I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.”

Source : "Mulroney and Amazing". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2002.

“I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Stratton, www.avclub.com. August 25, 1999.

“Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.”

“To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.”

“No girl was ever ruined by a book.”

“You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.”

Source : Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.150, Macmillan

“When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!”