K. A. Applegate

Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.

That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.