Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

I am not a ventriloquist.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.