Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.