If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I fear Senior has been spying inside my house, All Joy is a must-read for those of us whose lives have been enriched and derailed by having kids.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.