If you want to know about me, know the things I love — my kids, my wife, America, God, friends, New York City, the Mets, writing, the Chesapeake Bay, reading intellectual history, playing sports with great enthusiasm and mediocre talents, Montana, teaching. My list goes on, and I bet you have your own.
I’ve come to appreciate people who are ardent about life. To paraphrase that great philosopher of love, St. Augustine: Give me a man or a woman in love. Give me one who may be far away in the desert but who yearns and thirsts for the springs of passion. Give me that sort of person. She knows what I mean. But if I speak to a cold person, a suspicious person, a mistrusting person or a calculating person, he just doesn’t know what I’m talking about.
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