Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own. - John Updike

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

...I glance around at the nest we have made, at the floorboards polished by our bare feet, at the continents of stain on the ceiling like an old and all-wrong discoverer's map, at the earnestly bloated canvases I conscientiously cover with great streaks straining to say what even I am begining to suspect is the unsayable thing, and I grow frightened.

[Re Florida] Just not being senile is considered great down here.