“After all, didn't all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to kill their sons?”

“I mean, contrary to popular belief, I'm actually not harboring a secret desire to grow up and become a bioterrorist.”

“I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.”

“Someday son all this will be yours. Father and son atop a garbage dump.”

“But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duties a father has is that of teaching his son to drink.”

“All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.”