There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

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.

A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.