I Have A Lot Of Faith In

The Problem Is That People Are Pulling Farther Apart, Rather Than Make An Effort To Get Back Together. There Have Been Remarkable Moments That United This Country. It Makes Everyone Feel Relieved. Then Because Of Economic Stress, Political Shifts, We Get Wrenched Apart Again. I Think It's Cyclical. I Am An Optimist By Nature. There Are Moments, The Period After 9/11, The Way We Responded. The Election Of Barack Obama. There Are Moments Where The Country Felt Good About Being American. I'm Waiting For That To Happen Again.

Look At The Darkest Hit Musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - They Are Exuberant Experiences. They Send You Out Of The Theater Filled With Music

Books Make Great Gifts Because They're Something You Love That You Can Share.

I Can't Imagine Doing An Hour-long Dramatic Series Because It's So Much Work. A Sitcom Is A Wonderful Gig. You Work From 10 To 4 Every Day, It's Fun, And You Get To Live At Home.

I Need A Good Book I Need A Good Story. I Need A Good Book. The Kind That Explodes Off The Shelf. I Need Some Good Writing, Alive And Exciting, To Contemplate All By Myself. I Need A Good Novel, I Need A Good Read. I Probably Need Two Or Three. I Need A Good Tale Of Love And Betrayal Or Perhaps An Adventure At Sea. I Need A Good Saga. I Need A Good Yarn. A Momentous And Mightily Or Slight One. But With Thousands And Thousands And Thousands Of Books, I Need Someone To Tell Me The Right One. -john Lithgow