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As [lawyer Paul] Mones said: “It’s counterintuitive, but
sexual abuse emotionally binds the child closer to the person
who has harmed him, setting him up for a life plagued by
suspicion and confusion, because he will never be sure who he
can really trust. And in my experience, this is by far the
worst consequence of sexual abuse.” That’s one reason, he
said, why those few victims who ever speak out at all tend to
do so only after the abuser is dead or dying: telling the
truth while the other person is still strong enough to deny
it, or to blame the accuser, is just too terrifying.
-- Amos
Kamil, “Prep School Predators: The Horace Mann School’s
Secret History of Sexual Abuse,” New
York Times Magazine,
June 10, 2010
ACTING
Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not
be boring. Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art
reminds you that you have one.
-- Stella Adler
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