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By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.

When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.