“This family is just plain crazy." Grant, comenting on discovering Vivienne's ever expanding family.”

“Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.”

“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.”

“Are you sure you don’t have a crazy hairy grandmother in your family?”

“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”

“As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family”