Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together..

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know..

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which ….

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining..

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break..

There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of t….

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend..

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice..

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love..

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place..

...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat..

I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our….

Good writing is about telling the truth..

Joy is the best makeup..

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck..

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born….

I had NO interest in being a theologian, especially not a Christian, as I had been raised by progressive atheists. We bowed down every morning to the….

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You….

I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't.

Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity..

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of t….