We All Know We Should

America Believes What's Good For Us Is Good For The World. It's Very Difficult To Understand That That's Not Necessarily True.

I Would Enjoy Having Dinner With The Poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

We All Know We Should Eat Right And We Should Exercise, But Reading Is Treated As If It's This Wonderful Adjunct.

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.

I Know I'm Tired Of Thinking About What I Should Have Done Yesterday. I Know I'm Just Tired. If I Knew What To Do With My Life, How To Fix It Up, I Would Have Done It A Long Time Ago. You Can't Dig That? You Think I Want To Live Like I'm Somebody's Throwaway?