You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.

A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.

I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.

He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures... but he was never in them.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.