But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

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

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

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

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.