I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.