Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.

Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.