There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections....

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I...

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. ‘Don’t let any boy give you shit.’ But he’d never said how we should go about preventing this.

You just want to give up, he said when he was able to speak. Only you keep going. You still have to get up in the morning and pour the cereal in the bowls. You...

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.