There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal.

We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we’re more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?