“Whenever I'm with my [teenager], I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”

“It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.”

“The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.”

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?”

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”