For Most Of My Life, I've Thought

Writing Is A Conversation With Reading; A Dialogue With Thinking. All Conversations With Older People Contain Repetition. Some Of The Ideas Mean A Lot To Me, Just Interesting, So I Both Embrace And Attack The Ideas Because I Found Them, Well, Delightful.

I'm An Old Storyteller. I Tell The Story. It's About The Story.

Sacred Cows Make Very Poor Gladiators.

The Catchword I Use With My Classes Is: The Authority Of The Writer Always Overcomes The Skepticism Of The Reader.

I Hope That, Reading 'rosa,' People Will Remember Their Own Family And Friends And Talk About What They Did And Did Not Do.