You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

But then again, in addition to paper and cardboard...a little illuminated box, that contains thousands and thousands of stories? People aren’t fascinated by that? Really?

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.