“Write as if your parents are dead.”

“It's probably nice to know your parents were once not your parents.”

“dear joe, your wild noisy huge brother is dead.
I couldn't do what my parents did:
bring two boys, four years apart through the maze.”

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

“We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.”

“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”

“Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.”

“No one who writes a good book is really dead.”

“There's no winning arguments with your parents”

“Choose your parents wisely.”