The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

I write in a small office at home.

No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

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

What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.

When I began to read, I began to exist