Ahmet Zappa

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.