We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was that way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that last year? I didn't even know who he was. He was way more attracted to drugs and bikers and that whole lifestyle than he was to me. But somebody told me that if you really loved somebody,you stayed with him no matter what. You had to fight for him." She laughe. "Hell, I was convinced.

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

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

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

If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

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

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.