The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.