When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.

You ever hear a dog cry, Steve? You know, howling so loud it's almost unbearable?' He nodded. 'I reckon they howl like that because they're so hungry it hurts, and that's what I feel in me every day of my life. I'm so hungry to be somethin' - to be somebody. You hear me?' He did. 'I'm not lyin' down ever. Not for you. Not for anyone.' I ended it. 'I'm hungry, Steve.' Sometimes I think they're the best words I've ever said. 'I'm hungry.

It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.