It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

Worst parents unintentionally raise, the best parents.

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.