All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.
The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east