There’s something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot…It’s significant…Because somebody has to take them in…And if you know that, and you do it for that one guy, you do something else. You join the world…You move out of your isolation and become universal.

A. At this time he married his first wife and started a family. Dubus's collections include: Separate Flights (1975) Adultery and Other Choices (1977) Finding a Girl in America (1980) The Times Are Never So Bad (1983) Voices from the Moon (1984) The Last Worthless Evening (1986) Selected Stories (1988) Broken Vessels (1991) Dancing After Hours (1996) and Meditations from a Movable Chair (1998).