We're the ones who will hold on to a leaky old boat in the belief that someday we'll get the old tub fixed up just the way she ought to be. We're the ones who would gladly spend the second half of life in leisurely reconsideration of the first. We like our journeys short. We prefer having the end in sight when we set out, and that keeps us close to home and makes us shy of fog. We often have only one really big idea in an entire lifetime; if it arrives early, we're likely to spend a lifetime working on it, trying to get it right, trying to fill in all the details, fill every gap, stuff every crack.
Little Follies: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy (so far) by Eric Kraft (Picador USA, New York, March 1995).
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