She lived with me really all my life. She would not let a FedEx man come in without offering something to eat. It was like being in a Greek village. I always wanted to be either a journalist, which my father was, or a politician, which everybody in Greece wants to be - which is why we're such an unstable democracy. Now, I'm absolutely sure that I don't want to run for office.
Elementary education is in a crisis, and that is a federal issue.
Bush has said we need to change the world one soul at a time. My advice would be pick up the pace. The book I'm working on is precisely about this. I see the source of hope in a movement that's building around the country, to a large extent among young people in colleges and even high schools. Young people are organizing against the abuses of our criminal justice system, and it's still very much beneath the radar screen of the mainstream media.