there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.