“I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.”

“I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.”

“Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?”

“My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.”

“Brother, even by my mother's dust, I charge you,
Do not betray me to your mirth or hate.”

“I'm not an angel, Jace," she repeated. "I don't return library books. I steal illegal music off the internet. I lie to my mom. I am.”

“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”

“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father, and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”