All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else.

Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with the outfits that need only one a…

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six.

Who knows the thoughts of a child?