We got this jerky sub. she don't know a thing and she's trying to teach it.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

Teaching here isn't so bad. Once you accept as one of the ineluctable laws of nature that kids will continue to say 'Silas Mariner' and 'Ancient Marner' and 'b…

My words never reached him; I could almost hear them drop, one by one, like so many pebbles against a closed window.