And one must learn to be rich. To be poor anyone can manage.
When you have children, you always have family. They will always be your priority, your responsibility, and a man... a man provides. And he does it even when he's not appreciated or respected or even loved. He simply bears up, and he does it... because he's a man.
It always amazes me the way the senses work in connection to memory. I mean, this stew is simply an amalgam of ingredients. Taken separately, these ingredients alone don't remind me of anything. Hmm. Not very much at all. But, in this precise combination, the smell of this meal instantly — it brings me back to my childhood.
— You're looking very well.
— Yeah, well, you know, chalk it up to clean living and vitamin pills. I must apologize.
— Therefore, what conclusion am I left to draw? That you believe I have some proprietary kind of selfishness about my own formula. Some sort of overweening pride, I suppose, that you think simply overwhelms me, clouds my judgment.
— But it doesn't.
— Absolutely not. I simply respect the chemistry. The chemistry must be respected.
— Where's the phenylacetic acid?
— They synthesize their own.
— What? I don't... I don't do that. Look, I get my phenylacetic acid from the barrel with the bee on it.