He Was Trying To Convince Himself That

I Keep Threatening To Keep A Formal Journal, But Whenever I Start One It Instantly Becomes An Exercise In Self-consciousness. Instead Of A Journal I Manage To Have Dozens Of Notebooks With Bits And Pieces Of Stories, Poems, And Notes. Almost Every Thing I Do Has Its Beginning In A Notebook Of Some Sort, Usually Written On A Bus Or Train.

We All Know We Should Eat Right And We Should Exercise, But Reading Is Treated As If It's This Wonderful Adjunct.

Fifty Percent Of All Meaningful Education Takes Place In The Home. What Do You Share With Your Child? You Share Your Interests. I Was A Book Person. I Read With My Son. My Wife Is An Artist. She Dragged His Little Butt Around To Museums. He's An Illustrator Of Children's Books.

I Want Young People To Be Hesitant To Glorify War And To Demand Of Their Leaders Justification For The Sacrifices They Ask Of Our Citizens.

What I Do With My Books Is To Create Windows To My World That All May Peer Into. I Share The Images, The Feelings And Thoughts, And, I Hope, The Delight.