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I'm Interested In Themes That Endure From Generation To Generation.

Cities Produce In Me Melancholy Or A Tension I Don't Need.

There Are Things In This Universe That We Cannot Control, And Then There Are The Things We Can. . . . Let Fate, Coincidence, And Accident Conspire; Human Beings Must Act On Reason.

Even Though I May Not Intend It When I Set Out To Write The Book, These Places Just Emerge As Major Players In What I'm Doing, Almost As If They Are Insisting On It.

We Should Recognize That Schools Will Never Solve The Bedrock Problems Of Education Because The Problems Are Problems Of Families, Of Cultural Pressures That The Schools Reflect And Thus Cannot Really Remedy.