A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. Anna said men, but I said babies.
Men are often bad, but babies never are.
The first and direst of all disasters. No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. It is because we are not the people involved.