A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.
If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
Modern morality is all about perception.
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.