“I hate it when she does that. There’s nothing more humiliating than being smacked by your crazy mother in front of your friends.”
“General [De Gaulle], you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies”
“There’s nothing more depressing than waking up in your shoes.”
“There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think.”
“More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.”
“There is nothing you will regret more in your life — nothing — than not being present for your children”