I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on it for seven years. I was putting into words the stuff I was teaching, and I was writing it up and thought, "Dude, you're writing a book."

There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

I was terrified of LSD. I don't want to get arrested.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.