A few years ago [Redwood] was just OK. Now I see them as very respectful.

You stood there and played. There might have been a couple of choreographed moves. Now it's acting, dancing, theater and choreography all wrapped into one show.

It takes time to develop a program, and you have to have somebody stick around and work with the students. A coach might come, get frustrated after a two years, then bail out. You have to stick it out.

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.