That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.