I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'