If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.

I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

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

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.