“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”

“Rational and kindly behavior tends to produce good results and these results remain good even when the behavior which produced them was itself produced by a pill.”

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”

“I think, about a lot of these monsters is that there are these very central, basic, human emotions that you can talk about when you talk about these monsters. You can talk about Dracula’s longing for love, you can talk about the Mummy’s longing for love. So as messed up as they may be in terms of their behavior, and they are monsters, there always has to be a rooting and an understandable idea behind why they are who they are.”

“I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

“Please, don’t talk to me about ‘Pure Awareness’ or ‘Dwelling in the Absolute’.
I want to see how you treat your partner,
your kids, your parents, your precious body.”

“Your parents could always hurt you, no matter how old you were.”

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

“There is no such thing as a bad kid, there is only ever unfulfilled needs that create the behaviors in a kid which we consider bad.”