Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.