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

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

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.

How deep is your game?

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

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.