But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.