Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.