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

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.

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

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

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.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.