Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

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

Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

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

There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.