As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.

It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance.

I think we've gotten to a point where we're becoming really sensitive to things like body dysmorphia, but I think it's gone too far, where people are accusing everyone of hating themselves.

Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.

You can call double-eyelid surgery wrong or see it as evidence of body dysmorphia, but don't overplay the race issue. It's insulting to those of us who are merely vain.

As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.