Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples. - Sherwood Anderson

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

Already there was a contest, always kept under the surface, between the father and son. It concerned ways of doing things, decisions to be made. As yet, the son always surrendered.

It is like that in a family, little isolated groups formed within the larger group, jealousies, concealed hatreds, silent battles secretly going on…

Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned.