The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?