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.

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

'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.