David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.
My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.
A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.
That's right, you and God versus me, Vincent Kennedy McMahon, and the product of my semen, my son Shane!
Luke and Vader's light saber duel in 'Return of the Jedi' gives me chills every time. Even the still photo of the two of them in silhouette, sabers crossed, gives me a rush.
Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.
I've always had a particular affinity for father-son dramas.
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
