The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.