It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.

I'm very comfortable writing.

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

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

I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.