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

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Men are what their mothers made them.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.