Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.
"You know what sells papers, Gayle? Evil. That's right. People pick up a magazine or a tabloid or even the Times looking for Evil, for something to blame for all the misery in their lives. And most of all, they want a villain. A Nixon, or a Dracula, or even a Hillside Strangler."