Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

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 spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.