If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.