No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.