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

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

There are no grown-ups....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.

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

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

One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible, ’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.