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

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

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 don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.

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.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.