I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!