You don't hate history you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
When a novel has 200 000 words then it is possible for the reader to experience 200 000 delights and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again perhaps more intensely.
If to live is to progress if you are lucky from foolishness to wisdom then...
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
In the traditional urban novel there is only survival or not. The suburban...
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly...
As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I...
