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To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the world was a dreadful place; I thought the sooner we all got off the planet, the better.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

To walk out on a marriage and leave a child was painful.

I don't like going away from my children.