"You mean...there's insanity in the family?"--Katharine Hepburn in "Bill of Divorcement."
A father is asked why he always calls his son worthless. "Because the little shit kept on landing in trouble--BB guns and rifles--neighbors showing up with half of their cats in each hand..."
"That was an accident, Dad."
This cracked me up from cover to cover. Nearly cover to cover. And continually, not continuously, but often and often. It was like The Corrections on nitros oxide. I liked Hey, Nostradamus! just fine, but that was regular Douglas Coupland. This was Coupland seeming to mind much less whether everyone noticed how clever he was, which allowed him to be a lot funnier than usual.
Also, someone is from New Lyme, Connecticut. Hey! Quit that!