It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.

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 suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.