

“His son had gone astray in the great city, where so many others had gone astray before him, and where many others would go astray after him, until there was found some great secret that as yet no man had discovered.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country

“All around me the options seemed to be narrowing, as if I were hurtling down a huge black funnel, the whole world squeezing in tight.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Some characters and situations are fictitious. Others are only too real.”
― Feeling Lucky
― Feeling Lucky

“I’m often asked what made me spend a decade on Columbine. It was that day and those kids. I didn’t see it as a book then, but I knew I’d be with these kids a long time. Eventually, two questions drove me. The second was why. Why drove me nuts. But the question that started and sustained me was what would became of those two thousand kids.”
― Columbine
― Columbine
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