Chimpanzees Are Endangered. Severely.

There Is A Wonderful Intelligence To The Unconscious. It’s Always Smarter Than We Are.

Public Libraries Are The Sole Community Centers Left In America. The Degree To Which A Branch Of The Local Library Is Connected To The Larger Culture Is A Reflection Of The Degree To Which The Community Itself Is Connected To The Larger Culture.

The Way I Feel About Every Book Is This: You Don't Finish It, You Abandon It. All Of My Books Have In Some Sense Failed, Otherwise I Wouldn't Write Another One. If I Wrote The Perfect Book, I Wouldn't Have To Write Again, And I Wouldn't Want To. That's Not True For Everyone, But It's True For Me. I Could Walk Away Then. But So Far I Haven't Managed To Do It.

I Much Prefer Working With Kids Whose Life Could Be Completely Upended By A Reading Of A Book Over A Weekend. You Give Them A Book To Read - They Go Home And Come Back A Changed Person. And That Is So Much More Interesting And Exciting.

The 60s Passed And Faded And I Grew Older, And In 1987 Bought A House In Upstate New York, And It Turned Out That John Brown Was Buried Down The Road From My House And That He Had Lived There Longer Than Anywhere Else And His House Was Still Standing.