When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

New York is my favorite city.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.