“I don't lecture any more; it bores people rigid. I read and I talk. After you teach college for a while, that becomes fairly easy to do. A formal lecture makes people sit up straight and feel like they need to take notes for an exam later, and I don't want them to feel that way.”
“When you don't know the story of a place, it makes it much easier to destroy it. And so much of Florida is being destroyed because people don't credit it with having a history . . . Because it seems there's no story here, everything in Florida can be made new, and I think that's wrong and I think we harm ourselves irrevocably by destroying our history.”
“I started writing about the Florida Legislature, and there are two possibilities for response to the Florida Legislature. One is weeping uncontrollably and jumping off a tall building, and the other is to laugh. So you might as well laugh.”
“She could do things on beam that I had no name for. As a third-year coach, I had visions of grandeur, thoughts of state championships dancing before me. I couldn't wait to work with someone at that level.”
