"I always tell people at readings that if they're not buying books at independent bookstores, they're going to get really sh*tty seats in heaven."
--Anne Lamott, speaking at last week's Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Fall Discovery Show in Denver, Colo., about her upcoming book, Hallelujah, Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy. (For more coverage of the MPIBA show, see Robert Gray's column below.)