I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!