You can't enjoy sipping of success without first enduring failure's fire

The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.

Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.