I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.

Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.

I'm just trying to eat healthy. That's my biggest thing right now. Staying away from fried foods, eating more greens and grilled food, just keeping my body right.

Don't buy into a superficial reality. It has an expiration date.

When mind stuck, entertain your heart.

We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.