Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

It has a nice crunch to it, which is a contrast to the soft texture of the avocado.

They would be having sit-ins uptown, and we would be playing basketball at Benedict. Art had an old Model A (Ford) with no roof. He would cut a doughnut in front of a dorm at Benedict and let (the car) backfire. They would open the gym and we would go at it.