Loyalty Is Weird, It Kicks

We Are Not Buried In History, But Surrounded By It. You Can't Avoid Our Behavior Being Shaped By It, To A Considerable Degree. We Have This Fantasy That We Are Free Of History. This Allows Us Not To See The Circumstances, The Historical Circumstances Of Other People.

Luck Can't Last A Lifetime Unless You Die Young.

Public Libraries Are The Sole Community Centers Left In America. The Degree To Which A Branch Of The Local Library Is Connected To The Larger Culture Is A Reflection Of The Degree To Which The Community Itself Is Connected To The Larger Culture.

Although I Still Occasionally Paint And Draw, My Life Has Now Been Shaped By My Writing.

And There Are People Who Want To Be Writers Because They Love To Write. And They Care.