You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

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

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.