"...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another."

“I love being outside and getting fresh air.”

“I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.”

“I think players changing coaches is normal.”

“I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2010). “Out of My Mind”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

“Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around and I'm thinking about plot and there's a lot of other things going on at the level of structure and story. With a poem, a single idea or line or emotion can sometimes be enough - there's often a sense, in the best poems, of capturing a single instant. Perhaps poems differ from prose in the degree of solace they can offer - by speaking so personally, so directly, about shared experience. A few lines of poetry can provide comfort.”

“People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz”

Source : "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.

“I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.”