If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.

butterflies were wind energy made visible.

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.