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

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.

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

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.

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?

It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.