Everyone's story matters.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.