"

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an as...more

"

Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, whe...more

"

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.