I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.