I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was look….

We are not by nature cruel..

Be sure that whatever you are is you..

God is the same everywhere..

There is, quite literally, nothing to understand..

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen..

No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'.

I decided then and there I was never going to have kids..

We don't have great answers to what jobs will look like in 10, 20, 30 years. And I think it's right for people to have some anxiety in a world where ….

If you can, start your own business while you're working another job so that your bills get paid. Choose something that you love, so that when you're….

I don't strive for balance. I just try to get through my to-do list, with my kids' homework being at the top of it, and then try to prepare for the n….

We is always so much better than I..

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up..

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be..

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you'….

If the kids get a good grasp of what the main lessons are for chess after two or three years of staying with the game, then you've given them brain f….

When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that und….

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been..

I'm proud of this guy. I really am. And nothing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is gonna take that away. He's not a liar. He's a kid. H….

[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania..

I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when….