I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.

If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?