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.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

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.