Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.