Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

In order to get wealth, knowledge is needed.

Oh you’re heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

The first question an Ayurvedic physician asks is not 'What disease does my patient have?' but 'Who is my patient?' By 'who,' the physician does not mean your name, but how you are constituted.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Our friends, the enemy.

Let go of the place that holds, let go of the place that controls, let go of the place that fears. Just let the ground support me.