Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.

Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.