“Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.”

“It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions.”

“Actually, Mr. Jack is not about anger, it’s about how, perhaps the most heinous of crimes is to deny ourselves and live vicariously through others.”

“Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?”

“Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.”

“Life is brutally short, and there's only one go at it. We don't go for the old myths about helping somebody as we travel along life's path or our living will have been in vain. It's for now. Not tomorrow. But now.”

“The most important stuff, what was closest to the bone, was just what you never talked about. There were no words for it...The trivial and silly is what you spend your day chatting about. You could ask your friends how they liked your hair, but you could never ask them what you really wanted to know: Is there hope for me, yes or no?”