I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.