More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.