There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Let's fly away and live forever

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.

I don't care what the weather is, I will always wear my coats. I am always freezing, so it works out perfectly for me!

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

I didn't really know about Marilyn Manson - it's not my sort of music, not exactly the sort of thing I would curl up and listen to!