“If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.”

“Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.”

“You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.”

“I may have overmothered you and screwed you up in ways large and small, but I think it’s time you took some measure of responsibility for where you choose to put your own penis.”

“Sometimes nature cannot stand us. And Sometimes we cannot stand our own nature.”

“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”

“All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean. ”