People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

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.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

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

There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.

it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.