Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.

There's no instruction manual for donating to political campaigns.

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.

In the beginning, we didn't have a clue. When the oldest comes along, you don't have an instruction manual. There's certainly nothing that prepares you for twins.

These are clearly issues of great complexity, there is no single structure, no single silver bullet that will be a solution to these problems,

A young man who had watched her eating with her fingers offered a set of chopsticks- those sticks for eating that had become so popular. He looked at her suggestively. Instead of blushing, she accepted the chopsticks boldly and continued to walk on, using them to eat noodle and vegetable dishes.