Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

She loved having a large family. She has 56 grandchildren, 84 great-grandchildren, and 28 great-great grandchildren. After she moved in with me, she got to see them all of the time.

I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family).

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.