We Hide So Well. This Is The

What We [writers] Do Might Be Done In Solitude And With Great Desperation, But It Tends To Produce Exactly The Opposite. It Tends To Produce Community And In Many People Hope And Joy.

Colleagues Are A Wonderful Thing - But Mentors, That's Where The Real Work Gets Done.

It's Exactly At These Moments, When All Hope Has Vanished, That Prayer Has Dominion.

Spin Is 'something Is Beautiful Because We Say It's Beautiful.'

[immigrating] Didn't Burn Out My Desire To Travel, Though That Can Happen. There's Nothing Like Immigration To Make You Want To Just Stay Put. But What I Think Of As Home Is This Life Between Santo Domingo And The Parts Of New Jersey And New York City That Were My Childhood, So In My Mind It's Like Home Is All Those Things Combined.