The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.