Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desper….

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run..

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission,….

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups.….

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread..

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk o….

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness..

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book..

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves..

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right..

As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. On….

God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to g….

The happiest people are the ones with the most community..

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice..

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa..

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief..

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know..

I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently poli….

I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how ….

Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playin….

Time cures you first, and then it kills you..