When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.