There must be more to life than having everything.

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

And the walls became the world all around.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.