My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.
“Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.”
“I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.”