"Most of my life I never worked out whether to pity, ignore, adore, judge, or murder my father. His mystifying behavior left me wavering right up until the end. He had conflicting ideas about anything and everything, especially my schooling: eight months into kindergarten he decided he didn't want me there anymore because the education system was 'stultifying, soul-destroying, archaic, and mundane.' I don't know how anyone could call finger painting archaic and mundane. Messy, yes. Soul-destroying, no."
- Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole