I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

Oh my God. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm right there in line. Your hair smells really good? Your hair smells really good? Who did he think he was? James Bond? You don't tell someone their hair smells good. Not in a mall.

The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.