Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.