"The parents' role should be to get the best out of their kids, to help them be the best that they can be. Again, maybe that's partly because I think my parents didn't do that. Not because they didn't want to; they didn't know any better."

Books:

Did You Really Shoot the Television?, by Max Hastings
Will This Do?, by Auberon Waugh
Fathers and Sons, by Alexander Waugh
Experience: A Memoir, by Martin Amis
Hitch-22, by Christopher Hitchens
My Father's Fortune: A Life, by Michael Frayn