The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
Stephen KingWe all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
Stephen KingDo you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.
Stephen KingYou see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
Stephen KingWhen machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist
Stephen King