I'm Not Any Kind Of Social Reformer.

Most Of Those Old Settlers Told It Like It Was, Rough And Rocky. They Named Their Towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, And Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's A Tough Country. The Names Of Arizona Towns Tell You All You Need To Know.

To Read The Papers And To Listen To The News... One Would Think The Country Is In Terrible Trouble. You Do Not Get That Impression When You Travel The Back Roads And The Small Towns Do Care About Their Country And Wish It Well.

I'm Not Knocking The Wholesale Grocery Business Or Any Other, But There Is A Kind Of Romance In Journalism Which Some People, The Lucky Ones, Feel Inside Them All Their Lives.

Thanks To The Interstate Highway System, It Is Now Possible To Travel Across The Country From Coast To Coast Without Seeing Anything.

I Could Tell You Which Writer's Rhythms I Am Imitating. It's Not Exactly Plagiarism, It's Falling In Love With Good Language And Trying To Imitate It.