We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.