Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.