Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.