“I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.”
“Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other.”
“A man like that is someone to go out with—once—twice—three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a child by?”
“Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,” and he would have meant the same thing.”
“A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.”
“Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee”