Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.