My Father Was Often Angry When I

Old Paint On Canvas, As It Ages, Sometimes Becomes Transparent. When That Happens It Is Possible, In Some Pictures, To See The Original Lines: A Tree Will Show Through A Woman's Dress, A Child Makes Way For A Dog, A Large Boat Is No Longer On An Open Sea. That Is Called Pentimento Because The Painter 'repented', Changed His Mind. Perhaps It Would Be As Well To Say That The Old Conception, Replaced By A Later Choice, Is A Way Of Seeing And Then Seeing Again.

We Are A People Who Do Not Want To Keep Much Of The Past In Our Heads. It Is Considered Unhealthy In America To Remember Mistakes, Neurotic To Think About Them, Psychotic To Dwell On Them.

Lonely People, In Talking To Each Other Can Make Each Other Lonelier.

A Man Should Be Jailed For Telling Lies To The Young.

It Doesn't Pay Well To Fight For What We Believe In.