Robert Burns said it best: Life is but a day at most.
It’s like singing on a boat during a terriblestorm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing
I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let's think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world. Th...
Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
The three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it...
I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared...
If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.
There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life.
We live stitch by stitch, when we’re lucky. If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
This is parenting on steroids.
My father treated them with respect and kindness, his main philosophical and spiritual position being: Don’t be an asshole.
Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
Just take it bird by bird
Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can’t short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can’t pa...
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.