A Person Who Deserves My Loyalty Receives

The Portrait Of My Parents Is A Complicated One, But Lovingly Drawn.

Wherever It Is You Make Your Home, There Is Always This Other Place, This Other Person, Calling To You. Come To Me. Come Back.

Long After Salinger Sent Me Away, I Continued To Believe His Standards And Expectations Were The Best Ones.

Before I Had Children I Always Wondered Whether Their Births Would Be, For Me, Like The Ultimate In Gym Class Failures. And I Discovered Instead... That I'd Finally Found My Sport.

The Painter Who Feels Obligated To Depict His Subjects As Uniformly Beautiful Or Handsome And Without Flaws Will Fall Short Of Making Art.