Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.

I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'