How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

When I teach people, I marry them.

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.