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.

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

Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.

This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.