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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.

Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.