I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while.

I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing a 1-800 number, so I called it. The woman who picked up the other end of the phone was named Michelle. And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night. That's when Michelle hung up on me. And I didn't mind a bit.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.