Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.