Keeping People Safe Is A Story We

Updike And Bellow And Roth Were My Three Favorite Writers When I Was Young And Throughout My Life.

Reading Fiction Not Only Develops Our Imagination And Creativity, It Gives Us The Skills To Be Alone. It Gives Us The Ability To Feel Empathy For People We've Never Met, Living Lives We Couldn't Possibly Experience For Ourselves, Because The Book Puts Us Inside The Character's Skin.

Home, Bed, Sleep, Mother--who Knew More Beautiful Words Than These?

You See An Absolutely Brilliant Film Later, As An Adult, And You Walk Out Thinking About What To Have For Dinner. Whereas Something Like Jaws Winds Up Having A Huge Effect On Me. If Only My Parents Had Been Taking Me To Kurosawa Films When I Was Eight, But No.

If Anybody Had Shown Me The Paperwork For How My Life Was Going To Look In Five Years, I Would Have Said, "no. That Is Not Where I Want To Go."