“Satan impregnated my mother one lovely spring morning. We didn’t have the heart to tell my father.”

“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart”

“It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”

“My father has always broken the rules for those he loves, just as my mother has always kept them for the same reason. [...] 'We can't give you the life you want,' my father says, his eyes wet. He looks at my mother and she nods at him to continue. 'We wish we could. But we can help you have a chance to decide which life you want.”

“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...”

“But in that one little window of time, many lastingdecisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have remained either in mymother's heart or my own - vaporized. Second, we knew for sure that Dad was unfixably nuts.”