Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.

When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.