“Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.”

“To get what your heart desire, you must loose something you hold dear. That is the way of things in this world.”

“Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.”

“Parent power is not a sign of democracy, it is a sign of barbarism. We are to regard education as a service industry, like a laundry, parents are the customers, teachers the washers, children the dirty linen. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. And what in the name of boiling hell do parents know about education? How many educated people are there in the world? I could name seventeen or eighteen.”

“The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.”

“Scary with you is better than scary without you”