“To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the s...”

“Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.”

“Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside.”

“It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.”

“Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.”

“I love you butdon't know what todo.”

“It's like I'm reading a book, andit's a book I deeply love, but I'mreading it slowly now so the wordsare really far apart and the spacesbetween the words are almostinfinite. I can still feel you an...”

“The past is just a story we tell ourselves.”

“You are the silence between the notes. The white space between the letters. The missing that makes everything else a something.”

“Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.”

“Something else has happened with computers.”