When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
Despair is anger with no place to go.
The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.