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We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.