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It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

I get a lot of mail from boys in detention centers, including one from a center where they only had a few copies of my novel. They had a deal with each other that they'd read a couple of chapters and then slide it under the door to the next guy. I think that's very cool.

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.