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The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.