Zitat des Tages von Marya Hornbacher:
You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.
I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.
Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis. But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better.
I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.
Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.
My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!
When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.