“The Trial” quotes from Titus

I wish everybody had a mom like mine.

A mother who kills people?

Person. She killed one person. You make it sound like a hobby!

Normal people fear the day their parents die. Screwed-up people fear the day their parents kill. My mom killed a guy. At our wedding. So, I can pretty much check that one off. But, she's my mom, and, no matter what she did, I can't just walk away from her. She gave me birth. She gave me love. She gave me the ability to make a cigarette fire look like it was started by the hot water heater.

My mom is mentally ill, so she and I have always watched out for each other. She saved me from bullies; I saved her from CIA hitmen, poisonous spoons, and border collies that scream at you with their eyes.

When you're raised by a mentally ill mother, you have to be a clutch player, because bad things happen really fast. You only get one chance to deflect the cops or one chance to ditch the landlord or one chance to make sure Mom doesn't choke on her own vomit -- well, well, one chance per time -- and you only get one chance to go back-to-school shopping before they take away the Goodwill bin.