Travel definitely affects me as a writer..

People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair..

You're either living or you're dead..

Sit up straight, listen and participate..

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches..

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was str….

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go..

I'm going to do things when they are right for me..

The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old ….

Basically what my mom told me - I was extremely shy, I didn't have any girlfriends 'til I was 21 - my mom would see me suffering and tell me, "Just f….

You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that….

It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult..

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace..

Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, h….

When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the qu….

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watc….

I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily bas….

If you're smiling , you're happy out..

...friendship is something you do..

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disil….

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, s….