“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.

'A duck!... A baby duck.' (Squealing about a birthday card on her third birthday on Puerta Vallarta, Mexico.

“This is our house. And this is America Online.” (While pointing at a map of the North American continent.)