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" Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. "

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" But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. "

" Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. "

" But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. "

" Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. "

" I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. "

" McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object. "

" Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. "

" Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. "

" I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked. "

" You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. "

" I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. "

" It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. "

" The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. "

" I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. "

" Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. "

" I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve. "

" I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. "

" When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen. "

" It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. "

" You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist. "

" I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. "

" I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. "

" I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. "

" High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. "

" I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. "

" So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. "

" I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. "

" And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. "

" It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. "

" Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. "