When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.

If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

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 will have lots of money from now on and really cool people like Ethan Hawke will be dropping by all the time. But it's a lie. Being a published writer will make them long to be ONLY as mentally ill as they are now. Their current level of obsession and doubt and self-loathing will look like the good old days. Honest.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.