I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

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 still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

The house is a factory.

Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.