There's no winning arguments with your parents

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

(Actually now I’m remembering that the goodbye chow isn’t spelled that way. It’s ciao or something weird like that. It’s Italian, right? But I’m not an Italian gypsy, I’m a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.)