Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

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

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

I'm seventy-six now. I'm at a stage in my life where I feel a lot of affection and regard for women, and I felt the need to make this clear in some way. I don't know how they'll feel when they read it, but I feel okay about it.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

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

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.