Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.