The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.