I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.