“There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored ...” — Joe Mantegna Quote

“There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.”

“You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.”

“There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.”

“But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.”

“I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.”

“You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.”

“Too often, our most vulnerable students - English-language learners, immigrants, poor kids, teenage parents, students with behavioral problems and learning disabilities - fall through the cracks.”

“All too often, I'm sorry to say, I relegated my family to the cracks and margins.”

“I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.”

“I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.”

“My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there.”