When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

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.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.