I've been to all 50 states and traveled this whole country and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

When there is time to think about cricket I think but when there is time to be with family I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.

My work's never been accepted by my family but it's something I'll always carry on with.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

As a novelist I mined my history my family and my memory but in a very specific way. Writing fiction I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.