Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.