Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.
“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”
“When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.”