“(he'd never faniced himself a butt pilot), and he'd been making up for it ever since. As far as Nemo was concerned, a day without tang was like a day without sunshine.”

“A dinner without Wine, is like a Day without Sunshine”

“Jimmy nods. Being with him like this, without the attitude and looking at me with complete trust, almost makes me understand why parents would go through the trouble of dealing with all of the bullshit of having kids. Then I remember how he told me I smelled like cat pee, and the moment passes.”

“You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition”

“It's not surprising that he doesn't have any manners. Most kids today don't. But if you ask me, it's a direct reflection of bad parenting. I can say this with complete certainty because I've never parented a day in my life and I enjoy making sweeping generalizations about how other people do a piss-poor job at something about which I have absolutely no experience.”

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”