Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
We learn from tragedy. Slowly.
To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature