When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.

And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.