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If You Were To Look At Each Atom As A Universe Unto Itself, Think Of The Number Of Universes Within Each Of Us.

We Get Crazy When We Can't Make Things Be Like The World Tells Us They Are". She Looked Back Out The Window. "it Was That Way For Me And Your Brother, I Think. I Mean, How Could I Have Loved Him That Last Year? I Didn't Even Know Who He Was. He Was Way More Attracted To Drugs And Bikers And That Whole Lifestyle Than He Was To Me. But Somebody Told Me That If You Really Loved Somebody,you Stayed With Him No Matter What. You Had To Fight For Him." She Laughe. "hell, I Was Convinced.

I Think When You’re Dying You Start Looking For Important Things In The Corners. You Can’t Let Anything That Seems Even Semi-important Pass, Because It Passes Forever. Things Take On Meaning.

Certainly Working With Teens Keeps Me Up To Date With Language And With Certain Kinds Of Thinking. I Often Feel Like I Have To Go Back To That 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, And That Forms The Core Voice. I Can Draw On Teens From 1964 To 2001 To Find A Part Of The Voice I Need.

I Am For Anything That Makes Teens Visible In An Honest Way... In Other Words, Anything That Represents Them The Way They Are, Positively Or Negatively.