The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

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.

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

I have a serious love for clothes, like no other.

In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't.

The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].

I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.