Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.