“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”

“Badly off as the men… were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.”

“In Ibuza sons help their father more than they help their mother. A mother's joy is only in the name. She worries over them, looks after them when they are small; but in the actual help on the farm ,the upholding of the family name, all belong to the father.”

“Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.”

“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”

“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”

“To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.”

“My dreams — even they're not as populous as they should be.
They hold more solitude than noisy crowds.”

“I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.”

“If you were capable of thinking of an object from more than one point of view, you could imagine it doing all sorts of things. For Mother, consciousness was becoming more than just a tool for lying.”