I think it’s better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

But I didn’t mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.

It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.

Josh Funk and Hunter Fraser: we haven’t been in touch in years, but you made me feel like the funniest kid in the world. I would stay up late on school nights to write things...

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can’t they be well paid for changing young minds?