When I went to auditions, if I didn't know the lines, I wasn't getting the job. If I knew my lines, if I knew what I was supposed to be doing, I got the job. And it was always like that - if I'm working hard, I get the result that I'm looking for.

I feel it's important for the geeks to have a voice. 'Dope' is going to give a lot of people a new perspective.

When I was 12, my dad took me to see 'You Got Served.' I walked out a whole different person.

I'm from a neighborhood that isn't amazing - it's not the worst, either - and I was happy. But Atlanta is just one area of a country. There's a world out there I wanna touch.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

I never considered myself a writer. I'm a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of... kind of guilty for all the people who are writers who hope to be on the best-seller list someday, who live for that and don't get it, and it came to me as a kind of free gift, like God coming to Abraham and announcing, 'I've chosen you!'