We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.
Richard FordVery early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
Richard FordI don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
Richard FordThey may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?
Richard Ford