Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world.... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.