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

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

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..

Keep scribbling! Something will happen..

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 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….

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life..

After a full belly all is poetry..

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….

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….

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while..

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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..

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..