Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

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 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.

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.