Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.

I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.