“He feels refreshed by Diane’s betrayal. It’s something that he couldn’t predict, not in his years with her, not before their marriage, not after it. It’s a cloud that he could never imagine straying into their bland sky.”

“I’m constantly looking for those moments when people really look like themselves, not some posed version of who they want to be.”

I asked Patrick Jilbert, 24, what fuels his creativity and motivates him to create. Here’s what he had to say.

Mucca Pazza’s band members include four trumpets, four woodwinds, five bones, one sousaphone, nine percussionists, three cheerleaders, two accordions, one violin, one mandolin, and one guitar

Bernardo knew that they were destined to stay together when the sliding words came to him the afternoon they made love for the first time. He said, “Hold me tight, woman,” burying his face in her breasts. “I feel like I’m falling.”