Certainly Working With Teens Keeps Me Up

I Have Made A Career Of Creating Characters Who Fight School Authority And Chomp At The Bit To Get Out Into The 'real' World And Live Their Lives, Mostly Because That's The Kind Of Teenager I Was.

...we Can Say We Love Each Other If My Life Is Better Because You're In It And Your Life Is Better Because I'm In It.

It's A Scary Thing; Moving On. Part Of Me Wishes Life Were More Predictable And Part Of Me Is Excited That It's Not. I Think It's Impossible To Tell The Good Things From The Bad Things While They're Happening.

...you Don't Always Get What You Expect. I Wish Someone, Sometime When I Was Growing Up, Would Have Told Me What Expectations Would Get Me. ... Our Parents, Schools, Everyone Tells Us Things Will Be A Certain Way When We're Adults And If They're Not That Way, We Should Make Them Be; Or At Least Pretend. But After A Certain Point That Just Doesn't Work.

A Sport Has Its Own Built-in Integrity, Doesn't Need An Artificial One. Athletics Carries Its Own Set Of Truths, And Those Truths Are Diminished And Manipulated By People With Agendas.