If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

Heart...Soul...Words

In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion.

Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

I loved the geography part. Learning about that made me want to read.

I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.