But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.