That the man is usually the one who works, or works the most hours, has deceived us into thinking that the child is naturally closer to the mother than it is to the father.

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

Some children are a bitch or an asshole in the making.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

Boredom ought to be the closest a child gets to depression.

Some self-employed people work for others.

The only thing most of us love about most of our family members is that they are related to us.

Some people’s deaths would not have pained us had we not known that to them we were related.

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.