"The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children."

"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."

"Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work."

"I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions."

"When I teach people, I marry them."

"I am my own Universe, I my own Professor."