And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

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.

This moment will just be another story someday.

Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And that was enough for me.

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it.

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't