So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears