“I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.” GivingPersonsBookHomeKidsReadingInterestingChangedExcitingWeekendChanged Person Author:Russell Banks
“Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.” IfsMenKidsBoysGrown Man Book:Lost Memory of Skin Source: Lost Memory of Skin
“It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.” IfsPersonsKidsWantedMy OwnCitiesBoysForeverFrontsStrangeMirrorsLondonSense Of HumorWeedOccasionalGood SenseBrazilOystersCalcuttaGood Sense Of HumorMalt Author:Russell Banks
