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.

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

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.

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.

If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.