Honestly, I Don't Try To Guess At

Education Is The Silver Bullet. Education Is Everything. We Don't Need Little Changes, We Need Gigantic, Monumental Changes. Schools Should Be Palaces. The Competition For The Best Teachers Should Be Fierce. They Should Be Making Six-figure Salaries. Schools Should Be Incredibly Expensive For Government And Absolutely Free Of Charge To Its Citizens, Just Like National Defense. That's My Position. I Just Haven't Figured Out How To Do It Yet.

Roxy Sorkin, Your Father Just Won The Academy Award. I'm Going To Have To Insist On Some Respect From Your Guinea Pig.

Honestly, I Don't Try To Guess At What Most People Want. I Don't Think I'd Guess Right, And I Just Think That That's Not A Good Recipe For Storytelling. I Try To Write What I Like, What I Think My Friends Would Like.

My Resting Pulse As A Writer Is Writing Idealistically And Romantically; Aspirationally. My Taste Lies In Quixotic Heroes.

There's A Great Tradition In Storytelling That's Thousands Of Years Old, Telling Stories About Kings And Their Palaces, And That's Really What I Wanted To Do.