What I Still Ask For

The Only Thing More Destructive Than A Tornado Is A Family.

Life Is Short And Often Stingy; Feast The Heart With What It Craves, Short Of Cruelty, And Let The World Wonder.

I've Met Little Meanness, Wherever I Went.

As A Child I Thought It Was Very Boring When I Had To Sit With [my Mother] On The City Streets, But The Time Sank Deep And Surfaced Later.

Even Now, After Whatever Gains Feminism Has Made In Involving Fathers In The Rearing Of Their Children, I Still Think Virtually All Of Us Spend The Most Formative Years Of Our Lives Very Much In The Presence Of Women