With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.