WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.

But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself.

The house is a factory.