No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

I am every age, up to my own.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.