Write as if your parents are dead.

I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.

God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness