Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

I think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have had the deep satisfactions of being parents and being children in the way that they might have and are going to spend a lot of time fretting and worrying and being hovered over for nothing. The question isn't so much "What will happen in the long run?" but "What's happening to people's lives right now?"

The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.