Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

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

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your "reporting" that you do.