It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.