When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.

Your first attempt will be terrible.... Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft..... Whenever someone sends me a manuscript and says, 'It just flowed out of me,' I usually think: Let it flow back into you for a while.

By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.

There are no grown-ups....Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.