There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

I am confident. I never give up.

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

You are as close to God as you choose to be.

The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.