S. E. Hinton

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.