You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.

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.

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