I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people interrupt themselves in the middle of some story they're telling me to say, "You know you can't write about this."

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.

My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

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

Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.