All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.