We're in an era where they've sanitized home life in movies to such a degree that there is a certain home life that might be true if you have two perfect parents, and a nanny, and a couple babysitters, and support, and lots of money, and there's no strain at home, or whatever. But for most people, there's strain, you know? There's a lot of pressure, things can't be perfect, parents can't be perfect all the time. There's a divorce, there's money issues, whatever. People work, so you don't always have these vast reserves of patience every time your kid goes crazy.

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.