As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.

Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.

When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.