Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough