“But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.”

“One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood is never fully escaped; it may submerge itself for a while, but it always returns in times of need to lay claim to the soul it shaped.”

“The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.”

“My cheeks burned: with disillusionment, with the feverish afterglow of confrontation, but most hotly with embarrassment. I had perceived a closeness where none existed.”

“They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...”

“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”

“They say everyone needs something to love.”