“Why do we read fiction?  Because it is about you. 

There is no other reason to read it -

other than to save your own life”

- Frank McConnell (1942-1999)

"You want to know what I make?
I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional medal of honor
and an A- feel like a slap in the face.
How dare you waste my time with anything less than your very best."

- from What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali

link to the entire poem here:  www.taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=13

“Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book.” - Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury