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It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.