"I knew I had not escaped Kentucky, and had never really wanted to. I was still writing about it, and had recognized that I would probably need to write about it for the rest of my life. Kentucky was my fate. Not an altogether pleasant fate, though it had much that was pleasing in it, but one that I could not leave behind simply by going to another place, and that I therefore felt more and more obligated to meet directly and to understand, Perhaps even more important, I still had a deep love for the place I had been born in, and liked the idea of going back to be part of it again." - Wendell Berry, Think Little