Expectations are resentment waiting to happen..

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time..

When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around and say, Wow, th….

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are..

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable..

What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life..

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdb….

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you w….

Laughter is carbonated holiness..

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage..

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it..

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind..

And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old..

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along..

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.

I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life..

The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a w….

They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really valuable people and wil….

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life ….

What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you..

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to ….