“When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle cla...” — Steven Berkoff Quote

“When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.”

“I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.”

“If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.”

“I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.”

“We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.”

“Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.”