“Often, the cost of American freedom is that we, as a society, don’t address problems prophylactically; we don’t provide a social network that would catch us in case of failure, disease, misfortune.”
“At first, I was unsure if this was the right starting place for the book. I feared that my obsession with yogurt making would not be interesting enough to a reader and they would put my book down.”
Once, as we passed Sauk Centre on a rare family outing, my father said to me, "You know that Sinclair Lewis got run out of town for his books. Maybe someday you'll write a book that gets you run out of town."
