I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.

[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.