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" I'm a lucky buck. "

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" You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. "

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" Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. "

" Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. "

" Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. "

" Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. "

" I feel like I don't have a lot of time left. "

" I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? "

" Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it. "

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" Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. "

" In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. "

" My therapies went on forever. "

" As a kid, all I thought about was death. "

" We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. "

" There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. "

" I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. "

" When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. "

" I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! "

" My father belonged to a Jewish social club. "

" Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. "

" I didn't have much confidence in myself... never. "

" I'm not afraid of death. "

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" My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. "

" Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. "