I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.