being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.

All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.