They're not as civic-minded as people used to be.

I think a lot of people are working and just making ends meet. I don't know that they have time to consider civic obligations.

The ones that give blood -- they give all the time.

have held an entire people in fear.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.