These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

I am luminous with age.

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.