"[The] greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my
children's."
- James McBride,
National Book Award-winning novelist
Today marks James McBride's birthday ...
