...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

It's a great time to be alive.

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.