“A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.”

“Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.”

“A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.”

“I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.”

“Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.”

“I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.”

“I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.”

“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.”

“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”

“Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.”

“In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.”

“There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.”

“In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.”

“I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.”

“I grew up in a dysfunctional family.”

“I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.”

“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”

“That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.”

“What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.”

“There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.”

“The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.”