Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime