I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.

It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.