People in your own family are likely at any moment to do strange, sometimes hurtful things to you. You have to watch them. - Sherwood Anderson

Something seemed to open out. There was a little inner world created, always, every day, being re-created, and in it there was a kind of new security.

I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.

I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.