I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

When I was young, around 5, I was crying in all the pictures of me. I did not like the flash; it scared me!

If you're nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.