You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.” “What’s that?” “The truth.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.