When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

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.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

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.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.