When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

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.

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

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.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

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