I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.