Each Generation Seems To Invent Its Own

It Is This Language Of Values Which I Hope To Bring To My Books. . . . I Want To Bring Values To Those Who Have Not Been Valued, And I Want To Etch Those Values In Terms Of The Ideal. Young People Need Ideals Which Identify Them, And Their Lives, As Central . . . Guideposts Which Tell Them What They Can Be, Should Be, And Indeed Are.

But In The End, We Learn We Can Forgive Most People. The Cushion Of Mortality Makes Their Wrongdoing Seem Less Dark, And Whatever Roads They Traveled Seem Less Foolhardy.

I Think It's Difficult For Young People To Acknowledge Being Smart, To Knowledge Being A Reader. I See Kids Who Are Embarrassed To Read Books. They're Embarrassed To Have People See Them Doing It.

I Think That If We Can't Go Back, Then We Should Try Even Harder To Go Forward. And I Do Want To Go Forward, To A Place Where Loving Someone Because They Have A Gentle Smile And A Friendly Hello Is As Easy As It Once Was.

Children Have Adopted A Consumerist Attitude - I Dare You To Entertain Me.