Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.

That’s what’s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn’t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I think that’s our divinity. We lean into love, even in the most hideous circumstances. We manage to hope.

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.