Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.

So what are we supposed to do again, when we hate everything? You stop pretending life is such fun or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people. Like I love you, Elizabeth. You're the angel God sent me.

Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.