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

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

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

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.

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

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

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. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.