I Had Chosen To Use My Work

But Perhaps More Important, As Someone Wishing To Make A Comment Or Two About Contemporary Life And Values, I Don't Have To Dig Through Libraries Or Travel To Exotic Lands To Arrive At A View Of Our Modern Situation Refracted Through The Lens Of The Preindustrial World, Or The Uncommercialized, Unfranchised, Perhaps Unsanitized-and Therefore Supposedly More "authentic"-perspective Ofthe Third World. Very Simply, This Is Because That "other" World, As Alien As If Separated By Centuries In Time, Is The One From Which I Came

I Don't Very Often Read Novels.

I Never Had An Occasion To Question Color, Therefore, I Only Saw Myself As What I Was... A Human Being.

Of All My Father's Teachings, The Most Enduring Was The One About The True Measure Of A Man. That True Measure Was How Well He Provided For His Children, And It Stuck With Me As If It Were Etched In My Brain.

I Always Wanted To Be Someone Better The Next Day Than I Was The Day Before.