As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

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

'Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.'