I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

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.

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.