If Someone's Different From You And It

No Amount Of Effort Could Have Stopped That, Because Our Points Of View - The Way We Perceive Things - Are Inextricably Linked To Our Beliefs, ... ,our Beliefs Color What We See.

I Figure If Doc Is Right About The Time I Have Left,i Should Wrap Up My Adolescence In The Next Few Days, Get Into My Early Productive Stages About The Third Week Of School, Go Through My Midlife Crisis During Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday, Redouble My Efforts At Productivity And Think About My Legacy, Say, Easter, And Start Cashing In My 401(k)s A Couple Weeks Before Memorial Day.

I Think When You’re Dying You Start Looking For Important Things In The Corners. You Can’t Let Anything That Seems Even Semi-important Pass, Because It Passes Forever. Things Take On Meaning.

If You Think Your Life Sucks, It Probably Does. Do Something About It.

Certainly Working With Teens Keeps Me Up To Date With Language And With Certain Kinds Of Thinking. I Often Feel Like I Have To Go Back To That 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, And That Forms The Core Voice. I Can Draw On Teens From 1964 To 2001 To Find A Part Of The Voice I Need.