I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

The British have always made terrible parents.