Libraries Rock! Not A Sermon,

As A Lawyer, As A Private Citizen, You See A Lot Of Injustice. You See A Lot Of People Who Should Have Been Punished And Are Not, And People Who Were Punished Wrongfully Are Not Vindicated. Fiction Is Sort Of A Way To Set The Record Straight, And Let People At Least Believe That Justice Can Be Achieved And The Right Outcomes Can Occur.

All You Have To Do [to Win A Pulitzer Prize] Is Spend Your Life Running From One Awful Place To Another, Write About Every Horrible Thing You See. The Civilized World Reads About It, Then Forgets It, But Pats You On The Head For Doing It And Gives You A Reward As Appreciation For Changing Nothing.

It's The Hardest Thing In The World To Put Yourself In Someone Else's Place, Try To Really Feel What They Feel, Figure Out Why They Do The Things They Do. Especially When It's Easier To Stick A Label On Something. Or Someone.

Why Can't People Just Sit And Read Books And Be Nice To Each Other?

It's My Experience That Most Folk Who Ride Trains Could Care Less Where They're Going. For Them It's The Journey Itself And The People They Meet Along The Way. You See, At Every Stop This Train Makes, A Little Bit Of America, A Little Bit Of Your Country, Gets On And Says Hello.