I Am 82 Years Old.

How Can You Stop Writing?

If You Are Not For Yourself, Who Will Be For You? If You Are Only For Yourself, What Are You? If Not Now, When?

The Essays In The Great Taos Bank Robbery Were My Project To Win A Master Of Arts Degree In English When I Quit Being A Newspaper Editor And Went Back To College.

I Always Have One Or Two, Sometimes More, Navajo Or Other Tribes' Cultural Elements In Mind When I Start A Plot. In Thief Of Time, I Wanted To Make Readers Aware Of Navajo Attitude Toward The Dead, Respect For Burial Sites.

I Know What I Write About Seems Exotic To A Lot Of People, But Not For Me. I Pulled Up To An Old Trading Post And Saw A Few Elderly Navajos Sitting On A Bench. I Felt Right At Home.