A story is how we construct our experiences.
Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.