Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.