A Public Outcry Usually Masks A Private

Twenty Years Ago, Teenage Boys In The United States Drank Twice As Much Milk As Soda; Now They Drink Twice As Much Soda As Milk.

Basically, I'm A Perpetual Student. I Start By Finding A Subject I Really Don't Know Very Much, But That I'm Curious About. I Learn About It Through Books In A Library, By Doing Interviews With People Who Know A Lot About The Subject, And By Going Out On My Own And Seeing For Myself What's Happening.

Future Historians, I Hope, Will Consider The American Fast Food Industry A Relic Of The Twentieth Century--a Set Of Attitudes, Systems, And Beliefs That Emerged From Postwar Southern California, That Embodied Its Limitless Faith In Technology, That Quickly Spread Across The Globe, Flourished Briefly, And Then Receded, Once Its True Costs Became Clear And Its Thinking Became Obsolete.

The United States Now Has More Prison Inmates Than Full-time Farmers.

I Find That One Of The Most Important Things, As A Writer, Is To Just Show Up - To Just Stay In The Chair And Fight Through The Difficult Patches. As Long As You're At The Desk, And You're Willing To Fight It Out, Eventually The Right Words Will Come.