We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.