we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

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

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.

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

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