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

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she wants to write a book.

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

The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

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