I Live And Die With The Chicago

I Had A Fantasy As A Child That I Might Be A Writer Someday. I Always Thought That Meant You Went To New York Or Paris. But After That Intense Summer, I Never Thought That I Wanted To Live Any Place But Chicago. It Also Made Me See What The Stakes Were In The Civil Rights Movement. And It Made Me See What Real Hatred Was Like And The Forms That It Took. But It Also Made Me Understand How Powerless Ordinary People Feel In Their Lives.

I'm Very Honoured That There Is A Loyal Following And I Hope It Continues

Heart Surgeons Do Not Have The World's Smallest Egos: When You Ask Them To Name The World's Three Leading Practitioners, They Never Can Remember The Names Of The Other Two.

I Had Wanted To Write Ghost Country For A Long Time, But It Wouldn't Work.

I Realised I'd Never Climb Everest But Thought I Could Still Write A Book