“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”

“I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.”

“People will always give you advice, it is you who should decide either to try them or live with them. ”

“David thought living in a house was very difficult. It was not the house itself--that was lovely to be in--but the people. What was so difficult about them was that they constantly seemed to expect him to say and do things he would never have though of, and what appeared sensible and natural to him seemed to surprise them...”

“Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example.”

“When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.”