There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out. - Shirley Jackson

We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place — we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else.

Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky.

We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it was leaning sideways.