A Dysfunctional Family Is Any Family With

Memoir Is Not An Act Of History But An Act Of Memory, Which Is Innately Corrupt.

I Think We Fall In Love And Become Adults And Become Citizens In A Way By Writing Stories About Ourselves.

I Always Say That A Poet Loves The World, And The Prose Writer Needs To Create An Alternative World.

If Dysfunction Means That A Family Doesn't Work, Then Every Family Ambles Into Some Arena In Which That Happens, Where Relationships Get Strained Or Even Break Down Entirely. We Fail Each Other Or Disappoint Each Other. That Goes For Parents, Siblings, Kids, Marriage Partners - The Whole Enchilada.

The Shreiking Fight Or The Out-of-character Insult Endures Forever, While The Daily Sweetness Dissolves Like Sugar In Water.