Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.

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

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

“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.'