We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.

You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.