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.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

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.

I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.

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

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