The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.

Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families.

Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.

If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

I think film-makers invented the happy American family and put it into movies to drive everyone crazy.

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.