Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?