'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

When you have snowflakes in the clouds in the sky and you have mountains, you get snow. That's how it works.

“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'