What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.
But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
I was very much a child of the Cold War.
Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.
It's funny, the moments that shape you as a writer.
Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
Playing with Angus and Malcolm, that's a pretty tough gig, mate. That made me the maniac that I am today, no doubt.
Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
The things that impress you when you're a child have an incredible influence on your life.
