The poverty rate seems to be the last lonely lagging indicator of the business cycle.

It's almost a good news-bad news situation. The good news is more people are joining the workforce.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

Modeling is a lonely business.

Writing is a lonely business.

Writing is a very lonely business and when you come to a book fair and you sit at a table and people come up to you with books that they've had in their library for many years and they think it's been somewhat enhanced by a signature, it's always a pleasure.