Ayelet Waldman

I am a very nonspiritual person.

— Ayelet Waldman

I've only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

— Ayelet Waldman

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee,

— Ayelet Waldman

I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.

— Ayelet Waldman

I was terrified of LSD. I don't want to get arrested.

— Ayelet Waldman

I've never really been interested in recreational drug use.

— Ayelet Waldman

I love my husband more than I love my children,

— Ayelet Waldman

Here are my Mommy Messages: Wear a condom and test your Molly.

— Ayelet Waldman

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

— Ayelet Waldman

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

— Ayelet Waldman

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

— Ayelet Waldman

“As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.”

— Ayelet Waldman

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may…

— Ayelet Waldman

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

— Ayelet Waldman

I smoked pot when I was a teenager because other kids were doing it, but I didn't enjoy it that much.

— Ayelet Waldman

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

— Ayelet Waldman

States began to realize how much money they were spending on incarceration and how much money they were spending fighting this ludicrous…

— Ayelet Waldman

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to…

— Ayelet Waldman

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have…

— Ayelet Waldman

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly…

— Ayelet Waldman

I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not…

— Ayelet Waldman

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when…

— Ayelet Waldman

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd…

— Ayelet Waldman

My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll…

— Ayelet Waldman

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to…

— Ayelet Waldman

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it…

— Ayelet Waldman

I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we…

— Ayelet Waldman

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental…

— Ayelet Waldman

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and…

— Ayelet Waldman

The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system.…

— Ayelet Waldman

“work only during the week, and even then I often find excuses not to sit down and bang out the words. I…

— Ayelet Waldman

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the…

— Ayelet Waldman

“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her…

— Ayelet Waldman

“Amitai shook his head, almost smiling, because here he was, feeling for the first time that the tragedy of European Jewry did…

— Ayelet Waldman

“That was true, Iris would sometimes think, about marriage: it was only a boat, too. A wooden boat, difficult to build, even…

— Ayelet Waldman

“In the end the real wealth of the Hungarian Jewish community had not been packed in crates and boxes and loaded onto…

— Ayelet Waldman

“Love and marriage are about work and compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being dissapointed , and deciding to…

— Ayelet Waldman

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

— Ayelet Waldman

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

— Ayelet Waldman

There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.

— Ayelet Waldman