I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

He needs to go rub his soul against life.

Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.