When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.