I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.

The second and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic a scholar a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

You know a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject and you have a group of new guys every year.

I'm a freak everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will my jazz teacher set up everything completely flat and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black woman mother dyke teacher etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be not to impart his own opinions but to kindle minds.

Nearly everyone I met worked with or read about was my teacher one way or another.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.