Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.

Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.