I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

And never forget, there is memory.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.