Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

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

I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

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?

Husbands are always angry, that's their nature.And the nature of us women, is not to pay a blind bit of notice.

We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.

I'm only the messenger.

You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

And financial problems are exactly the same thing. You're humiliated. You're ashamed. You're embarrassed about telling anyone that you are suffering financial difficulties.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.