The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity. We all are, I suppose. Trying to invent our version of the story. All human odes are essentially one, "My life; what I stole from history, and how I live with it.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see.