Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.