'A duck!... A baby duck.' (Squealing about a birthday card on her third birthday on Puerta Vallarta, Mexico.

'There is no such thing as 'fun for the whole family.''

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

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.

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.