My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.

People need love. It’s the most powerful emotion in the world.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not. My health is perfect, actually.

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoritative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs...