Ayelet Waldman

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

— 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 only ever been interested in drugs as therapeutic tools.

— Ayelet Waldman

I am a very nonspiritual person.

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

— Ayelet Waldman

I love my husband more than I love my children,

— 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

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— 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

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

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

— Ayelet Waldman

When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different,…

— Ayelet Waldman

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not…

— Ayelet Waldman

I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest…

— Ayelet Waldman

The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own…

— Ayelet Waldman

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.

— Ayelet Waldman

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite…

— Ayelet Waldman

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony…

— Ayelet Waldman

My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had…

— Ayelet Waldman

Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear…

— Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women…

— Ayelet Waldman

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was…

— Ayelet Waldman

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses…

— Ayelet Waldman

I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the…

— Ayelet Waldman

I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic…

— Ayelet Waldman

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Ayelet Waldman