There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made between patriotism which is attachment to a way of life and nationalism which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting which is a style of parenting that... basically the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development and attaches her curse on all inaction.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment or an enlarged egotism.