"Bystanders at heart, writers are practiced in the art of watching. We live each moment twice--as human beings who inhabit bodies and interact with others, and as writers who note what can be used and file it away. Every story someone tells us is potential material, every overheard conversation possible inspiration. Uncurtained windows are opportunities."
"Robert was a practiced observer, his watching honed to a heightened sensitivity. He made Portsmouth is canvas and for thirty years covered these streets with an eye to picking up every unexpected treasure, every small revelation, every window into other lives...."
"Robert's fundamental contentment with himself and the world enabled him to see more. He was not, like the rest of us, constantly looking over his shoulder to reevaluate the past or trying to make the future bend to his will. He understood that the search for something better was a false search. Whatever he needed, which wasn't much, could be found right here.This is the mark of real brilliance, to be profoundly engaged with what is simple and ordinary, and to know it as rich beyond measure. Robert worked with a small canvas, secure in the knowledge that there were no limits to what he could do with that canvas. There was always poetry to be found in his daily walks, his stops at the post office and coffee shop, and the scene in Market Square."
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