I Was Fortunate Enough To Have Been

I Think The Way I Want To Think. I Live The Way I Want To Live.

But Perhaps More Important, As Someone Wishing To Make A Comment Or Two About Contemporary Life And Values, I Don't Have To Dig Through Libraries Or Travel To Exotic Lands To Arrive At A View Of Our Modern Situation Refracted Through The Lens Of The Preindustrial World, Or The Uncommercialized, Unfranchised, Perhaps Unsanitized-and Therefore Supposedly More "authentic"-perspective Ofthe Third World. Very Simply, This Is Because That "other" World, As Alien As If Separated By Centuries In Time, Is The One From Which I Came

I Am The Me I Choose To Be.

In America, It Is Difficult To Be Your Own Man.

I'd Seen My Father. He Was A Poor Man, And I Watched Him Do Astonishing Things.