God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
Djuna BarnesThe truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
Djuna BarnesMadness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.
Djuna Barnes