Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.