Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
“Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.”
“I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.”