The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.
No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.
You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.
BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.
Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.
Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.
You are you and you are me. You are the Keshet.
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
Money holds terrible power when it is loved
It means, Day, that you're dying.
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
I work best when people are here to puncture me.
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
When I speak it is in order to be heard.
