Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…

I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.