I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.