What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.