If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

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.

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.