I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a refe….

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery..

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale..

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes..

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while..

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head..

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it..

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him..

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow..

He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Sto….

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your w….

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper….

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the….

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace..

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with..

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever..

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life..

After a full belly all is poetry..

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room..

Keep scribbling! Something will happen..