Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.
Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.
If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.
Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.
It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
