I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

It fills a little niche; nobody's ever written about this before in this way because it's a book about a serious subject but told with such a respectful, light touch. It's one of those books you sit down and read start to finish because you can't put it down. And after you finish, you say 'My aunt would like this, and so would my great-grandmother and my sister.' And so people will buy one, and then come back and buy 10.

I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.

I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.