I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

A real woman's blood pressure will go up when another man touch her, in anger of me losing my dignity and not because she likes it.

The monster London laugh at me.

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

There are two sides to every question.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.