My Father Has Always Been

Her Touch Was As Knowing And Confident As Her Eyes, And As She Focused All Her Attention Upon Me, I Remembered That There Is Nothing So Thrilling As A Woman Of Words When She Decides That The Time For Words Is Past.

My Father Has Always Been The Heart Of My Penn Cage Novels.

I Have Not Written A Perfect Sentence, In The Literary Sense. It's A Lot Easier To Throw A Perfect Pass Than To Write A Perfect Sentence, If That Sentence Is Meant To Perform More Than A Mechanical Function.

He Always Reminded Us That Every Atom In Our Bodies Was Once Part Of A Distant Star That Had Exploded. He Talked About How Evolution Moves From Simplicity Toward Complexity, And How Human Intelligence Is The Highest Known Expression Of Evolution. I Remember Him Telling Me That A Frog's Brain Is Much More Complex Than A Star. He Saw Human Consciousness As The First Neuron Of The Universe Coming To Life And Awareness. A Spark In The Darkness, Waiting To Spread To Fire.

...the Larger World Lay Not Across Oceans But Within The Human Mind And Heart.