Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

Hope begins in the dark.

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.