...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.