I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.

A hundred years from now? All new people.

Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.