"Father, Father, where you been? I've been out in the world since I was only ten. Father, Father, where you been? I've been out in the world since I was only ten."
"Don't worry 'bout me I'm about to die of pleurisy."
—Jack Kerouac (recorded as a song by Tom Waits, "Home I'll Never Be")
My father left my mother for the love of aPOONTANGnother And I have a BASTARD brother Who I've never really known Because me dad moved up to Queensland And he doesn't have a BULLSHIT YOU FAT FUCK telephone
Indiana Jones: It was just the two of us, dad. It was a lonely way to grow up. For you, too. If you had been an ordinary, average father like the other guys' dads, you'd have understood that. Professor Henry Jones Sr.: Actually, I was a wonderful father. Indy: When? Henry: Did I ever tell you to eat up? Go to bed? Wash your ears? Do your homework? No. I respected your privacy and I taught you self-reliance. Indy: What you taught me was that I was less important to you than people who had been dead for five hundred years in another country. And I learned it so well that we've hardly spoken for twenty years.
Nightmare Moon: "And... what would father say, knowing... that we... that you used his gift to do this to... to me?" Celestia: "Nothing. Father isn't here, Luna. He was never here."
