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.

We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.

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.

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.