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People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

I mean, families are weird.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

A family is a group of people who are committed to loving and supporting one another. It's just that simple.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.