“What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.”

“That is a fart without wind....." in reference to when you can't back up what you say. very funny.”

“You’ve got a good side?”“I do. I just don’t use it too often. My bad side’s so much more fun.”

“Kids are like heroin -- an injection of pain when they're around, but even when they're not around it's like that next fix. You just can't stop thinking about it.”

“His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)”

“She sees now that the problem of the girl will never be solved, not as long as people have the capacity to reproduce themselves. Family is the problem that recurs.”

“A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)”