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.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

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.

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