…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself. - John Irving

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves — to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

There comes a moment in every life when you must let go with your hands — with both hands.