The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

The other night I told my kid, 'Someday you'll have children of your own.' He said, 'So will you.'

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely.