I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.

I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went.

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.