“Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.”

“First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children”

“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.”

“Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.”

“We do not inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrow her from our children.”

“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”