I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
“I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.”