When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.