One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.