Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”
“We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.”