In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

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.

Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again.

Be the great person you were always meant to be.

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.