(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack
You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
Each couple is its own vaudeville act.
It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.