John Connolly

And then you have to prove it.

And how many of them are going to carry their papers everywhere?

I don't carry a passport when I go to the United States.

You'd be afraid you'd lose it.

You might keep a copy on your phone, but that won't satisfy them.

Yes, and they did.

ICE were at the shuttle for the bus that takes people from Portland to Boston, checking everybody's passport as they were getting on it.

I would have to look very seriously at it.

I don't think those measures will go through, those ESTA measures.

I just think it would be so awful for tourism and for business if they were to go through.

Some watered-down version of it would probably go through.

Good luck with my social media.

There's nothing interesting on it.

cats falling off tables and pictures of dogs.

All right.

I'll come in as a character witness if anything happens.

Yeah, I don't, I don't, yeah, I've had a couple of run-ins with people who I won't mention and I just think, no, I'd rather be at home with my, that social aspect of it is less important to me and I think that's a function of getting older as well.

When I was younger, it was great fun and now as I get older, I don't want to be trapped with writers.

Oh, that part of it I love.

But readers and booksellers and librarians, why wouldn't you want to talk to people who read?