When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.