You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.

I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched

Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.