Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

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.

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

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

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.