Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.

If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.