While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.