What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.