If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

What an incredible drug fear is.

I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.