I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

Life is not just one dark moment after another.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else; or less.

There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood.

Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.