Dad didn't approve of any male friends back then.

It wasn't just her jackpot. It was everyone's jackpot.

We spend so much time together that we're more then friends now, we're like family. We practically lived together during break, we saw each other probably more than our own family.

He has a lot of friends. And he has been implicated in a lot of cases. Somehow, whenever there was a case we were investigating involving a Katrina-related case, B-Stupid was involved somehow.

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.

In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'