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.

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.