“The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.”

“One of the biggest - and I would guess most common - mistakes parents make is to transfer their own childhood shit onto their kids. Whatever their joys and agonies were growing up, they assume will be exactly the same for their children, and they let it guide their parenting. I can see the same dumb instincts in myself. When I first started hanging out with my old boyfriend's kids, I found it depressing because I would just look at them and think of how miserable they must be, and how totally alone they must feel. To me, that's what childhood meant. But the truth was that they were fine. Happy-go-lucky, even.”

“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it”

“I've always heard people complaining that love hurts. So, how does it look like, does it have a sword?”

“Amazing grace! how sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found,Was blind but now i see.”

“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”

“How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?”