There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.