The Past Is Still, For Us, A

People Don't Write About Kids; You Have To Give Them A Lot Of Freedom, And That Causes Anarchy And That Causes Farce.

I Don't See Novels Ending With Any Real Sense Of Closure.

Everything Is Biographical, Lucian Freud Says. What We Make, Why It Is Made, How We Draw A Dog, Who It Is We Are Drawn To, Why We Cannot Forget. Everything Is Collage, Even Genetics. There Is The Hidden Presence Of Others In Us, Even Those We Have Known Briefly. We Contain Them For The Rest Of Our Lives, At Every Border We Cross.

The Trouble With All Of Us Is We Are Where We Shouldn't Be.

What Is Interesting And Important Happens Mostly In Secret, In Places Where There Is No Power.