“Where I come from, Dorchester, you drive down
the main avenue and there are 12 churches within
10 square miles. Of course, there are also 30 bars, but
church and faith are all around you. We went to church
as kids, but I didn’t find it exciting or appealing in any
way because there was so much going on in the streets
that fascinated me. It was when I started to focus my
faith that good things started happening for me.”
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS, author:
“The average Amherst
resident has a Ph.D. in
astrophysics ... or is a
poet, wears organic
fiber clothing, recycles
everything, and drives
a Subaru, and always
pulls over to the side
of the road at sunset
to watch the sky.”
“Boston has lots of libraries
and bookstores, and the
greatest baseball stadium
on the face of the earth.”
SAMAN THA POWER,
Harvard professor and
presidential adviser
