On The Streets Of The City They

My Dad Was A Janitor For U.s. Radium Corporation, And He Stayed There For 37 Years. So He Didn't Read.

What Some People Wanted Was Sometimes Too Hard To Get, And The Stress Of Trying Was Sometimes Too Hard To Deal With... Maybe Doing Well In Life Was Just Too Hard For Some People.

Everything In Life Is Made Up...you Make Up That You Are Happy. You Make Up That You Are Sad. You Make Up That You Are In Love. If You Don't Make Up Your Own Life, Who's Going To Make It Up For You? It's Bad Enough When You Die And Everybody Can Make Up Their Own Stories About You. —mr. Hooft

On The Streets Of The City They Have Taken My Who-i-am As Well As My What-i-was And Now I Am Desperate For Them Both Again

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.