"Once the storyteller has her facts, whether they be told to her or be a product of her investigations, what then does she do with her material?" Beginning, p. 3

"She looked at me as if I were a stranger who had not yet entered her room. I could only guess at what she was thinking, what she was hearing, and what she feared." Beginning, pp. 8-9

"I was driving north and east. It was as far east as I could go. I had an image in my mind that sustained me—of driving to the edge and jumping off, though it was just an image, not a plan." The Notes and Transcripts: December 3-4, 1970, p. 17

"You could tell she was in trouble the minute she walked in the door there. She had a gray scarf wound all round her face, 'n' those sunglasses, 'n' I know she...