Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.”