When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.