Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.