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.

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.

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.

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

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.

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