So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.