“To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”
“I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb.”
“Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch.”
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
“When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.”