Tradition is not, as post-modernists maintain, a library or museum the artist plunders. It is the endless conversation between the living and the dead. Young artists enter into this conversation passionately — not merely intellectually, though study and analysis play a part. They live and breathe it. Tradition is not a public building. It is a love affair.

"Paradigms Lost," interview with Gloria Brame, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum (Spring 1995) - Interviews - The Catholic Writer Today (2013)