Chicago Is Not A Bad Place To

We, As Writers, Have To Figure Out A Way To Create A Consciousness In Language. It's Crazy Even To Attempt To Do That.

I Don't Know The Numbers, But Roughly Half Of The People Who Came Through Ellis Island Returned Home. They Came Here To Make Money, Not To Make History.

There Are Studies That Have Shown That We Make Decisions, Ethical And Otherwise, Based On The Way We Imagine Ourselves As Characters In The Stories Of Our Lives. In Other Words, If We Imagine Ourselves Brave Or Crazy Or Open, We're More Likely To Make Decisions In A Given Situation Based On How We Imagine Ourselves, Whatever The Facts May Be.

Because Sometimes You Have No Control Over Life And It Keeps You Far Away From Who You Love.

What I Was Interested In Is The Lens Organizing My Sovereign Space. I Avoid The Term Outsider And Also Exile For The Same Reason. Outsider Implies A Kind Of Nobility.