I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

Information is control.

That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas.

Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.