Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

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?

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

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.

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.

I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.