In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

All autobiography is fiction.

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

Anyone who offers their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

Well, it hurts but that maybe the only way.

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

When you give to your mate, you give to your children. There is no better way to teach love than to practice love. Kids are much better at watching and emulating than they are at listening.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

I've always idolized Amy Poehler, because I think she's the best of the best as far as female comedy.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.