A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. -Bill Vaughan.

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?"

"Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..."

"Everythings going to be alright.

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.