Stand Up At Sunrise And Meet What

From The Age Of Six I Wanted To Be An Artist. At That Point I Meant A Painter, But It Turned Out What I Really Meant Was I Was Someone Who Was Very Interested In Watching The World And Making Copies Of It.

A Need To Tell And Hear Stories Is Essential To The Species Homo Sapiens-second In Necessity Apparently After Nourishment And Before Love And Shelter. Millions Survive Without Love Or Home, Almost None In Silence; The Opposite Of Silence Leads Quickly To Narrative, And The Sound Of Story Is The Dominant Sound Of Our Lives, From The Small Accounts Of Our Day's Events To The Vast Incommunicable Constructs Of Psychopaths.

I've Met Little Meanness, Wherever I Went.

Southerners Ask Intimate Questions In The Way Monkeys Groom Each Other For Lice, Not To Pry But To Make You Feel Cared For.

Even Now, After Whatever Gains Feminism Has Made In Involving Fathers In The Rearing Of Their Children, I Still Think Virtually All Of Us Spend The Most Formative Years Of Our Lives Very Much In The Presence Of Women