I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.
Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.
Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.
Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.
Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.
