Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

Naked is the best disguise.

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing.

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

Life was a pre-death experience.